Reading Between the Lines and Beyond

OCR or Optical Character Recognition/Reader is the electronic or mechanical changeover of images of texts, be it typed, handwritten, or scanned, into machine-encoded text. It is a technology that sits at the conjunction of Computer Vision or Machine Vision and Natural Language Processing. While Computer vision helps us to detect texts, Natural Language Processing enables us to recognize texts. With technological innovations and developments entering new avenues every day, OCR has found its applications in various fields. Read the article to know more about OCR, how it was created, its types, functions, and more. Contact us today and get a free POC. Click here to read the rest of the article.