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Pest Control Technology, Innovations and Trends

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Pest control is the first line of defense against bugs and rodents invading home or business, destroying property. These bugs and rodents cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars’ worth of damage. It is not easy to detect certain insects, including cockroaches and termites. These may remain hidden under floorboards and walls for long periods, eating a property's structure and leading to expensive bills for extermination and repair. Since there is no specific way to detect whether a pest carries a disease until it is too late, pest control can be sought as the best way to protect the environment. What do we know about pest control? What is pest control? Pest control inhibits and controls the pest species. Pests adversely affect human activities. The human reaction is based on the meaning of the harm done, ranging from tolerance through deterrence and management to efforts to prevent the pest. Measures can be implemented as part of an integrated pest control plan. Why ha...

Optical Character Recognition: Digitizing The Insurance Industry

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Document digitization has become more dominant with the emergence of virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile technologies. This trend is specifically noticeable across the insurance industry that has forever been dominated by the prevalence of paper documents. Insurance organizations have a never-ending chain of documents that flow in and across the organizations via a network of agents, channels, and systems. What is optical character recognition? Optical character recognition (OCR) deploys technologies to differentiate printed or handwritten text characters that are found in the digital images of physical documents like a scanned paper document. OCR processes examine the text of a document and translate the characters into codes that are further used for data processing. OCR is quite often also understood as text recognition. Insurance companies exist in an industry that frequently faces changing laws and new processes and face troubles in constantly providing their cl...