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An Introduction to OCR, Computer Vision and Image Recognition
Optical character recognition or OCR is the electronic conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. OCR software analyzes the text in an image and translates the characters into codes that can be used for data processing.