ALL meanings of optical character recognition
op·ti·cal char·ac·ter rec·og·ni·tion
O o - noun optical character recognition the process or technology of reading data in printed form by a device (optical character reader) that scans and identifies characters. Abbreviation: OCR. 1
- noun Definition of optical character recognition in Technology (text) (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. 1
- noun optical character recognition the electronic scanning and identification of handwritten or printed text, and its subsequent conversion into text that can be edited by a computer 0
- noun optical character recognition electronic identification of alphanumeric characters, esp. those typewritten or printed on paper, for computer processing or storage 0