What is OCR?

OCR, or optical character recognition, is a technology used to convert images of text into digital text. OCR technology is often used to scan books or other documents and make them available for digital searching. OCR is also an important technology for accessibility, as it enables visually impaired people to read text contained in images. There are different types of OCR software on the market, but most of them work in roughly the same way. Most OCR programs take an image of the text and then convert the image into digital text. This is done by the program reading the image and trying to guess which letters and words are in the image. Once the program has guessed which letters and words are in the image, it converts the image into digital text. There are various uses for OCR. OCR technology is often used to scan books or other documents and make them available for digital searching. OCR is also an important technology for accessibility, as it enables visually impaired people to read text contained in images. However, OCR technology has its limitations. OCR software is often quite poor at interpreting images of text scanned from printed documents, such as books or newspapers. This is because there are often many different types of