OCR

Computers.

optical character reader.

optical character recognition.

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Examples from the Web for ocr

The original text was photographed and read with an OCR program and then transcribed word by word.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects|Andrew Lee
They are not the result of OCR errors; they are present in the original typography.
The Fiction Factory|John Milton Edwards

British Dictionary definitions for ocr

OCR

abbreviation for

optical character reader or recognition

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