OCR
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Computers.
optical character reader.
optical character recognition.
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Words nearby OCR
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How to use OCR in a sentence
There are a few OCR errors, but most of the misspellings are almost 200 years old.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark|Meriwether Lewis and William ClarkThey are not the result of OCR errors; they are present in the original typography.
The Fiction Factory|John Milton EdwardsThe original text was photographed and read with an OCR program and then transcribed word by word.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects|Andrew Lee
British Dictionary definitions for OCR
OCR
abbreviation for
optical character reader or recognition
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