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The What, Why and How of Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
March 7, 2022, 2:35 p.m. | Amrutha Moorthy
Towards AI - Medium pub.towardsai.net
Humankind stands out in splendid isolation due to ability of speech and advanced communication. However, pace of communication has been a quest as old as humankind.
What is OCR?
Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is the process of programmatically identifying characters visually and converting that to the best-guess equivalent computer code.
Why OCR?
Time is valuable and there have been automation in last century to speed the time-consuming tasks. Converting from one form of communication to another is cumbersome and …
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