optical character recognition

English

Noun

optical character recognition (uncountable)

(computing) The electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters by means of an optical scanner and specialized software.
- 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 4:
  Texts were scanned, converted via optical character recognition, and part of speech tagged using CLAWS 7.

Synonyms

OCR

Translations

electronic identification and digital encoding of characters

Chinese:
Mandarin: 光學字符識別／光学字符识别 (zh) (guāngxué zìfú shíbié)
Czech: optické rozpoznávání znaků n
Finnish: tekstintunnistus
French: reconnaissance optique de caractères f
German: optische Zeichenerkennung f, Texterkennung f
Greek: οπτική αναγνώριση χαρακτήρων f (optikí anagnórisi charaktíron)
Kazakh: символдарды оптикалық танып білу (simvoldardy optikalyq tanyp bılu)
Portuguese: reconhecimento ótico de caracteres m
Spanish: reconocimiento óptico de caracteres m
Swedish: teckenigenkänning c, teckentolkning c, textfångst c
Turkish: optik karakter tanıma (tr)

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