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OCR

Computers.
  1. optical character reader.
  2. optical character recognition.
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Related Words

OCR, scanner

Examples from the Web for ocr

Historical Examples

  • They are not the result of OCR errors; they are present in the original typography.

    The Fiction Factory

    John Milton Edwards

  • The original text was photographed and read with an OCR program and then transcribed word by word.

British Dictionary definitions for ocr

OCR

abbreviation for
  1. optical character reader or recognition
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