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	Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Formal	Optical character recognition (OCR) or optical character reader is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten, or printed text into machine-encoded text. Read More
Practical	OCRs are widely used as a form of data entry from printed paper data records, whether passport documents, invoices, bank statements, computerized receipts, business cards, mail, printouts of static-data, or any suitable documentation. It is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that it can be electronically edited, searched, stored more compactly, displayed on-line, and used in machine processes such as machine translation, text-to-speech, key data and text mining. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision. Read More
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Formal

Optical character recognition (OCR) or optical character reader is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten, or printed text into machine-encoded text.

Practical

OCRs are widely used as a form of data entry from printed paper data records, whether passport documents, invoices, bank statements, computerized receipts, business cards, mail, printouts of static-data, or any suitable documentation. It is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that it can be electronically edited, searched, stored more compactly, displayed on-line, and used in machine processes such as machine translation, text-to-speech, key data and text mining. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

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