What is OCR?
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. This is very important software that looks at the picture of the page that your scanner has supplied, and turns it into text. When the scanner delivers the image of the page, that image is only a picture. You can’t, for example, search for text in it, or edit the text to add a blank line. Your editor or word processor can’t work with it. The OCR program does the job of “reading” and “typing” the image for you. OCR packages call this “reading” or “recognizing”.
A. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition, which is how a computer converts words in an unsearchable scanned image to searchable text. OCR is usually necessary in order to use full-text indexing and searches, and it should be included in an imaging system. OCR engines can generally only recognize typed or laser-printed text, not handwriting.
