What is OCR Scanning Used For? Unlocking the Power of OCR

QLS Solutions Group

Published on: 06/12/2024

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a groundbreaking technology that converts various types of documents—such as scanned paper documents, PDFs, or images taken with a digital camera—into editable, searchable data. The primary function of OCR is to digitize printed texts, enabling them to be electronically edited, stored more compactly, displayed online, and used in machine processes like cognitive computing, machine translation, text-to-speech, key data extraction, and text mining. OCR is a multidisciplinary field that intersects with pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and computer vision.