The NBSC was searching for a highly accurate OCR technology that could quickly and correctly aggregate handwritten data form census sheets.

It also wanted to customise form capturing and processing system, searched for high-duty scanners, professional team and a 24x7 customer support network that covered all of China.

Fujitsu designed the form capturing and processing system embedded in the fi-Series scanners to quickly and accurately aggregate handwritten data and transform it into digitised data.

The company also customised the OCR software for Chinese character recognition and optimised it to recognise and capture different styles of handwriting from several Chinese provinces and minorities.

"Fujitsu is honoured to be selected by the NBSC to participate in the sixth nationwide population survey," said Christopher So, general manager, imaging business division, Fujitsu Hong Kong.