OCR

Definition

Optical Character Recognition—technology that converts images of text into actual text, often useful until it reads every third word wrong.

Example Usage

We used OCR to digitize the old contracts, but the system interpreted 'million' as 'nullion' multiple times.

Source: Technology terminology

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