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