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New optical character recognition (OCR) document

Posted by Nigel Goldsmith on Wednesday 28 April 2010 at 8:11am
Tags: accessibility | analogue collections | digitisation | news | optical character recognition | photography |

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of converting printed text into a computer readable format.

We have just produced a new introductory document on OCR which includes advice on how to capture the highest quality output.

OCR application window
Screenshot of OCR application reading damaged page of type. Screenshot used with kind permission of ABBYY

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