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Optical Character Recognition

<text> (OCR, sometimes /oh'k*/) Recognition of printed or written characters by computer.

Each page of text is converted to a digital using a scanner and OCR is then applied to this image to produce a text file.

This involves complex image processing algorithms and rarely achieves 100% accuracy so manual proof reading is recommended.

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