Optical-character-recognition meaning

The electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters by means of an optical scanner and specialized software.
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The technology involved in this process.
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Electronic identification of alphanumeric characters, esp. those printed on paper, for computer processing or storage.
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The electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters by means of an optical scanner and specialized software.
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See OCR.
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(computing) The electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters by means of an optical scanner and specialized software.
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Optical-character-recognition Sentence Examples

  • This article has been scanned and may contained errors due to the process of scanning and optical character recognition.

  • The 1500 is printed with special red ink and is for use in optical character recognition scanners.

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