OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

A technology process that translates and converts printed matter on an image into a format that a computer can manipulate (ASCII codes, for example) and, therefore, renders that matter text searchable. OCR software evaluates scanned data for shapes it recognizes as letters or numerals. All OCR systems include an optical scanner for reading text, and software for analyzing images. Most OCR systems use a combination of hardware (specialized circuit boards) and software to recognize characters, although some

Scanned images (from documents) that are converted electronically into readable text. The output may be a text files (flat ASCII files), or it may be embedded in a more complex file, such as a searchable PDF.

Optical character recognition is a technology which takes data from a paper document and turns it editable text data. The document is first scanned. Then OCR software searches the document for letters, numbers, and other characters.

A visual recognition process that involves photo-scanning of the text character-by-character