2 Comments for What exactly can I do with OCR software?
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Sandy G | February 15th, 2011 at 8:52 am
The idea is to feed OCR a graphic scanned of a book page or a letter or something else that is mainly text. The OCR will Recognize the Characters and translate the picture to actual text so that Word’s Edit, Find (or such) will find actual words.
We are using OCR to “recognize” all the Girl Scout Equipment Catalogs so they can be searched for catalog numbers or regular words like “tent” or “uniform” or such.
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Terry G | February 15th, 2011 at 9:49 am
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software is used to scan from a printed page to a format which can be edited with a word processor or within the OCR program itself..
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Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping system in an office, or to publish the text on a website. OCR makes it possible to edit the text, search for a word or phrase, store it more compactly, display or print a copy free of scanning artifacts, and apply techniques such as machine translation, text-to-speech and text mining to it. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.
OCR systems require calibration to read a specific font; early versions needed to be programmed with images of each character, and worked on one font at a time. “Intelligent” systems with a high degree of recognition accuracy for most fonts are now common. Some systems are capable of reproducing formatted output that closely approximates the original scanned page including images, columns and other non-textual components.
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2 Comments for What exactly can I do with OCR software?
1. Sandy G | February 15th, 2011 at 8:52 am
The idea is to feed OCR a graphic scanned of a book page or a letter or something else that is mainly text. The OCR will Recognize the Characters and translate the picture to actual text so that Word’s Edit, Find (or such) will find actual words.
We are using OCR to “recognize” all the Girl Scout Equipment Catalogs so they can be searched for catalog numbers or regular words like “tent” or “uniform” or such.
2. Terry G | February 15th, 2011 at 9:49 am
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software is used to scan from a printed page to a format which can be edited with a word processor or within the OCR program itself..
Ref Wikipedia:
Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping system in an office, or to publish the text on a website. OCR makes it possible to edit the text, search for a word or phrase, store it more compactly, display or print a copy free of scanning artifacts, and apply techniques such as machine translation, text-to-speech and text mining to it. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.
OCR systems require calibration to read a specific font; early versions needed to be programmed with images of each character, and worked on one font at a time. “Intelligent” systems with a high degree of recognition accuracy for most fonts are now common. Some systems are capable of reproducing formatted output that closely approximates the original scanned page including images, columns and other non-textual components.
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