Why on-machine OCR
- Client documents do not leave the building. OCR text and extractions are produced locally; nothing is uploaded to an OCR service.
- No per-page bill. The expensive part of a title packet — reading — costs nothing because it happens on your hardware.
- Works offline. A day in a courthouse basement with no signal does not stop the reading.
Multi-page instruments
Recorders often return a whole instrument as a single multi-page TIFF. TitleDesk processes each page — including exhibits and lease schedules on later pages — and surfaces extraction failures for review. A truncated read of a multi-page instrument is exactly the kind of silent error that produces an empty report; it is treated as a defect, not as missing data.
Nothing disappears quietly
A page OCR cannot read is marked "needs your eyes". Thin OCR stays empty rather than inventing a plausible lessor. Each extracted date, party and fraction stays proposed until a person accepts it.
Classification after reading
Twenty-three instrument types — lease, deed, deed of trust, release, assignment, ratification, probate, unit designation, plat and more — are classified and filed into the submission folder your company expects. Filename beats body text, so a ratification does not steal the instrument it recites.
Throughput
A pool of OCR workers keeps several documents in flight, and the interface reports document and page progress while the packet is processed. Throughput depends on scan quality and your hardware; measure it on your own packet.
On real assignments completed by working landmen, TitleDesk's automated run takes about twenty minutes for work that takes a landman three to five days; the landman then reviews and certifies. Packets, county sources and scan quality move the figure, so the ROI page shows every assumption, and we will help you qualify it on one of your own assignments. Download v0.2.5 or talk to Spencer.