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2. Optical character recognition - Wikipedia

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   Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and ...

3. Tesseract (software) - Wikipedia

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   Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. [5] It is free software, released under the Apache License. [1] [6] [7] Originally developed by Hewlett-Packard as proprietary software in the 1980s, it was released as open source in 2005 and development was sponsored by Google in 2006.

4. List of PDF software - Wikipedia

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   Extracting embedded text is a common feature, but other applications perform optical character recognition (OCR) to convert imaged text to machine-readable form, sometimes by using an external OCR module.

5. Comparison of optical character recognition software - Wikipedia

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   This comparison of optical character recognition software includes: OCR engines, that do the actual character identification. Layout analysis software, that divide scanned documents into zones suitable for OCR. Graphical interfaces to one or more OCR engines. Software development kits that are used to add OCR capabilities to other software (e.g ...

6. ABBYY FineReader - Wikipedia

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   Website. pdf.abbyy.com. ABBYY FineReader PDF is an optical character recognition (OCR) application developed by ABBYY. [2][3] First released in 1993, the program runs on Microsoft Windows (Windows 7 or later) and Apple macOS (10.12 Sierra or later). Since v15, the Windows version can also edit PDF files. [2]

7. Intelligent character recognition - Wikipedia

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   Optical character recognition (OCR) is commonly considered to apply to any recognition technique that reads machine printed text. An example of a traditional OCR use case would be to translate the characters from an image of a printed document, such as a book page, newspaper clipping, or legal contract, into a separate file that could be ...