!!! Overview [{$pagename}] ([OCR]) is the [device] (i.e. [Non-person entity]) conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed [text|Plaintext] into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a [photo] of a document, a scene-photo . [{$pagename}] is a field of research in [Pattern-recognition], [Artificial Intelligence] and [Computer vision]. !! More Information There might be more information for this subject on one of the following: [{ReferringPagesPlugin before='*' after='\n' }]