Aside; This was the OCR engine included with DEVON(think/note) applications.
Thankfully the OCR engine processed documents offline, in a seemingly prescient move, adherence to the rule of processing and storing as little data as needed saved an anxiety inducing set of events from occurring.
Shame that small teams (I think that team is less than 10 devs) are sometimes the only businesses with enough sense to ensure their risk when it comes to things like this is mitigated or reduced.