Abstract: An optical character recognition method and system are provided, employing context analysis and operator input, alternatively and in combination, on the same batch of documents. After automatic character recognition, the context analyzer processes the fields that are good enough to expect resolution. This will accept as many fields as possible without any operator intervention. For some other fields, the process uses operator input to certify the character-level OCR result of, or to enter, a certain percentage of the characters, so that context analysis may accept some of the remaining fields. If the context analyzer successfully identifies a small set of very close hypotheses, the process asks the operator to certify one or two characters to resolve the ambiguity between the hypotheses. For the fields that are still not resolved, the fields and the hypotheses are shown to the operator for acceptance, correction, or entry.