optical character recognition

Noun

Meaning

optical character recognition (uncountable)

(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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Synonyms

OCR

Examples

Using intelligent Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities, software robots read and extract information available in the invoice. Source: Internet

Optical character recognition (OCR) can be used to enable machines to read information available to humans. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

optical black hole optical camera sight optical character reading optical coherence tomography optical comparator optical compensator