Optical character recognition

[OP-tuh-kuhl KARR-uhk-tuh reck-uhg-NISH-uhn] /ˈɒptɪkᵊl ˈkærəktə ˌrɛkəɡˈnɪʃᵊn/

A technology that converts images of text into machine-readable and editable text. It is a foundational technology in the digitisation of archive and historic materials. it is frequently abbreviated to OCR.

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