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Optical Character Recognition

(OCR, sometimes /oh'k*/) Recognition of printed or written characters by computer. Each page of text is converted to a digital using a scanner and OCR is then applied to this image to produce a text file. This involves complex image processing algorithms and rarely achieves 100% accuracy so manual proof reading is recommended.

Last updated: 1999-08-26

Nearby terms:

Optical Carrier n ♦ Optical Character Recognition ♦ optical computing

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