Optical Character Recognition

Optical Character Recognition

Optical character recognition (OCR) is the process of converting images of text into machine-readable text. It can be used to digitize printed documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files, and images of text from books and magazines.

OCR technology has come a long way in recent years, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Modern OCR software can recognize a wide variety of text styles and formats, including handwritten text.

There are many uses for OCR technology. It can be used to convert physical documents into digital format for archival purposes, or to create digital copies of documents that can be edited and shared electronically. OCR can also be used to extract text from images for use in search engines or translation applications.