Overview#

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the device (i.e. Non-person entity) conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene-photo .

Optical Character Recognition is a field of research in Pattern-recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Computer vision.

More Information#

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