optical character recognition

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optical character recognition - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Optical Character Recognition
  OCR
  
     <text> (OCR, sometimes /oh'k*/) Recognition of printed or
     written characters by computer.  Each page of text is
     converted to a digital using a scanner and OCR is then
     applied to this image to produce a text file.  This involves
     complex image processing algorithms and rarely achieves
     100% accuracy so manual proof reading is recommended.
  
     (1999-08-26)