Optical character recognition (OCR)
3 Citations•2003•
S. Srihari, Ajay Shekhawat, Stephen W. Lam
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The long history of research, commercial success, and the continuing need and ability to handle less restricted forms of text make OCR the most important application area in machine perception to date.
Abstract
Optical character recognition (OCR) is performed by optical character readers which are automated electronic systems. OCR may be defined as the process of converting images of machine printed or handwritten numerals, letters, and symbols into a computer- processable format. The long history of research in this area, commercial success, and the continuing need and ability to handle less restricted forms of text make OCR the most important application area in machine perception to date.