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Optical Character
Recognition, (OCR) is the process of converting an image
of text, such as a scanned paper document, into computer-editable
text.
By scanning a document using Optical Character Recognition
software, you get an image of the text. You can
see letters made of pixels that together form a picture of text,
but the text is not editable. This is where optical character recognition
software comes in handy. The Optical Character Recognition
software analyzes the image and converts
it to editable text based on the patterns of the pixels in the image.
Once this is done, the converted text is exported and used it in
your business applications and databases.
Optical character recognition systems allow you to achieve a
fully automatic information flow, improving accuracy and efficiency
in processing documents, while preventing unnecessary losses. With
a minimum of manual interference, the optical character recognition
software automatically finds and extracts information from your
documents, interprets the data and transports it into any computer
system.
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