optical character recognition
computer recognition of visual text
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Key Facts
- Instance of: document digitization[6]
- Facet of: scanning[7], Create or Receive (Acquire)[8]
- Topic has template: Template:OCR[9]
- Short name: OCR[10]
- Different from: handwriting recognition[11], optical music recognition[12]
- Uses: optical font[13]
- Studied by: natural language processing[14]
- P14541: 2kbir2[15]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for optical character recognition include OCR-A[16], an open-source typeface[17], founded in 1968[18].
Why It Matters
Entities named for optical character recognition include OCR-A[16], an open-source typeface[17], founded in 1968[18].