[CV] OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
What is OCR (Optical Character Recognition)? OCR is a tool to allow computers to recognize the text from physical documents to be interpreted as data. When we read text on a document, whether it’s on physical paper or on the computer screen, we instantly know what letter or other symbols it is. However, for computers, it’s a little more complicated. Certain programs use OCR to allow you to edit the text from the scanned document like you would in a word processor. You can highlight text, copy it to other documents or rewrite whole sections. Another use for OCR is to make full-text searching a possibility. Some OCR programs will add the text recognized from a scanned document as metadata to the file, allowing certain programs to search for the document using any text contained within the document. Applications Widely used as a form of information entry from printed paper data records – whether passport documents, invoices, bank statements , computerized receipts, business cards,...