Optical Character Recognition

A branch of computer science, optical character recognition (OCR) involves the translation of scanned images into text that can be manipulated via computer. To understand how this works, consider a magazine article. Imagine scanning the magazine article and being able to edit it using a word processing program. This example illustrates the beauty of OCR.

OCR systems include scanners for reading text and technologically advanced software for the analysis of images. Typically, OCR systems make use of both hardware and software for character recognition. There are some systems that use software only. However, these systems are usually on the lower end of the price and ability scale. By contrast, more advanced OCR systems are capable of recognizing a wide variety of fonts.

Optical character recognition systems offer organizations great potential. Essentially, they make it easy for users to access and manipulate printed documents using computer technology. With a good OCR system, document searches can be completed quickly. In fact, searches that took hours or days in the past can be complete in mere seconds with OCR.

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