Definition of optical character recognition in US English:
optical character recognition
(also OCR)
nounˈäptəkəl ˈker(ə)ktər ˌrekəɡˈniSHənˈɑptəkəl ˈkɛr(ə)ktər ˌrɛkəɡˈnɪʃən
The identification of printed characters using photoelectric devices and computer software.
Example sentencesExamples
- They are also at the heart of practical technologies, such as optical character recognition and speech recognition.
- We had been in contact since my early experiments with optical character recognition in the early 90's.
- The relevant software such as text-retrieval systems or optical character recognition could be used to do the necessary transformation and processing.
- The machine-readable passports, which now have a standardized presentation worldwide, are being printed in a manner suitable for optical character recognition.
- I'm no expert on optical character recognition, but it I'm sure that every little visual cue that distinguishes one character from another, helps in improving accuracy and processing speed.