Optical character recognition
Esquema
Jerarquía
<functions by general context> > information handling functions > computer-use functions > data processing > data conversion
Descripción
The electronic conversion of handwritten or printed characters into machine-encoded text by means of an optical scanner, special software that identifies text images, and an output interface which reproduces them in electronic form.
URI original del concepto
Otros términos
- recognition, optical character [en]
- OCR [en]