ARDEM Data Entry Services successfully completes Marine Data

ARDEM is pleased to announce a successful completion of the data entry of Marine Fishery data logs for a government research organization.  Under very tight project deadlines ARDEM undertook the task of database development and data entry from computer printouts of marine data.

Historical data needed for the research was located in numerous binders. Each binder contained computer printout run- sheets containing arrays of data. Both the size and font of machine typed data made use of OCR impractical. Accuracy of final data set had to be higher than what could be achieved with OCR. Manual data entry was the only acceptable solution. Further all data needed to be double keyed to assure 100% accuracy.

Database programming was required to generate the data sets in in the report format that could be utilized by the researchers. The data strings in addition to being keyed had to be parsed based on prescribed field lengths. Further some data fields were to be cleansed from the data set while others were to be repeated based data validation rules defined. 

Data Entry solutions for large data sets very often require not only the keying of 100% accurate data but also the programming and creation of complex databases. This database needs to be 100% correct and capable of generating useful data reports required by researchers to allow them to quickly locate the relevant data sets.  While information which is machine typed in well laid out structured forms (Same information in same location) lends itself to optical character recognition (OCR) where data capture software can be utilized to capture the information from the incoming paper, many times the available font and size makes data key entry the only acceptable solution for transcribing data.

ARDEM solutions for data entry utilize both scanning of the paper as well as keying of the data from the paper. In addition to offering better document control scanning allows for greater efficiency when keying the data as well as allows for better downstream audit and quality control of keyed data.

Utilizing software validation in combination with dual key entry and compare data entry ARDEM achieves 99.97% or higher accuracy in data entry for many of its clients.

About ARDEM Incorporated

ARDEM provides technology based services including data entry services, data capture services, forms processing, document scanning and document processing services.

Applications for ARDEM services include: Survey Data Entry, Indexing large format drawings, Medical Record Scanning, Medical Claims Processing, Mailing List Data Entry, Data Entry from Customer Loyalty Cards, Customer Service Survey Data Entry

ARDEM provides data entry services to clients in New York, New Jersey, California, Colorado, Nevada, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Massachusetts, Florida, Ohio, Missouri Wisconsin, Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky and across other states and in Canada.

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