optical character recognition

English

Noun

optical character recognition (uncountable)

1. (computing) The electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters by means of an optical scanner and specialized software.

   Synonym: OCR (initialism)

   • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 4:

     Texts were scanned, converted via optical character recognition, and part of speech tagged using CLAWS 7.

Translations

electronic identification and digital encoding of characters

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 光學字符識別／光学字符识别 (zh) (guāngxué zìfú shíbié)

• Czech: optické rozpoznávání znaků n
• Finnish: tekstintunnistus
• French: reconnaissance optique de caractères f
• German: optische Zeichenerkennung f, Texterkennung f
• Greek: οπτική αναγνώριση χαρακτήρων f (optikí anagnórisi charaktíron)
• Kazakh: символдарды оптикалық танып білу (simvoldardy optikalyq tanyp bılu)
• Portuguese: reconhecimento ótico de caracteres m
• Spanish: reconocimiento óptico de caracteres m
• Swedish: teckenigenkänning c, teckentolkning c, textfångst c
• Turkish: optik karakter tanıma (tr)

See also

• homoglyph
• homoglyphic
• scanno
• speech recognition
• voice recognition