Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation optical character recognition

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  • initialism Oxford, Cambridge & RSA (examinations (board))
  • initialism computing Optical Character Recognition
  • initialism Office for Civil Rights (US)
  • initialism Office of the Chief Rabbi
  • verb To perform OCR (optical character recognition).

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Examples

  • We have learned that OCR is not suitable for non-Arabic characters and how difficult digitizing maps it is last week.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • Software that canconvert an image into text is often referred to as OCR,which stands for Optical Character Recognition.

    Free, online OCR image-to-text converter works like a charm | Sync Blog 2009

  • We have learned that OCR is not suitable for non-Arabic characters and how difficult digitizing maps it is last week.

    Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Digital South Asia Library 2007

  • For instance, it has a built-in OCR (for “optical character recognition”) system that interprets the text in photos, graphics files, handwriting from a tablet computer, or even words from audio and video files, and then lets you find that text with a fast indexed search.

    Microsoft Reboots 2006

  • For instance, it has a built-in OCR (for “optical character recognition”) system that interprets the text in photos, graphics files, handwriting from a tablet computer, or even words from audio and video files, and then lets you find that text with a fast indexed search.

    Microsoft Reboots 2006

  • Our optimal customer relationships we refer to as OCR is more than just getting new customers to the door and keeping the old ones happy.

    unknown title 2011

  • FWIW, the stuff I’m trying to OCR is pretty straightforward.

    Waldo Jaquith - Richmond Sunlight needs some money. 2008

  • It’s time to take the vestiges of the old media away, leverage what a newspaper like OCR is good at and really integrate it into a community.

    Anybody want to buy a newspaper? « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Today we have something called OCR optical character recognition – which will save your eyesight … and a whole lot of typing.

    Justice 1760 style | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006

  • This is the Web site for the federal Office for Civil Rights OCR, which is responsible for receiving and investigating claims of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act violations; includes information about your rights under the law and ways to keep your medical records private.

    YOU The Smart Patient Michael F. Roizen 2006

  • Our work with automatic text recognition (ATR) spans printed materials using optical character recognition (OCR), handwritten materials using handwritten text recognition (HTR), and hopefully in the future, speech-to-text for audio collections.

    AI and Machine Learning in Libraries: Promising, But Not Ready Yet – Open Objects Cultures of collective work and crowdsourcing? – Open Objects 2025

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