Early optical character recognition may be traced to technologies involving telegraphy and creating reading devices … See more

OCR engines have been developed into software applications specializing in various subjects such as receipts, invoices, checks, and legal billing documents.
The software can be used for:
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• Optical character recognition (OCR) – targets typewritten text, one glyph or character at a time.
• Optical word recognition – targets typewritten text, one word at a time (for languages that use a space… See more

OCR software often pre-processes images to improve the chances of successful recognition. Techniques include:
• De-skewing – if the document was not aligned properly when scanned, it may need to be … See more

There are several techniques for solving the problem of character recognition by means other than improved OCR algorithms.
Special fonts like OCR-A, OCR-B, or MICR fonts, with … See more

Commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Information Science Research Institute (ISRI) had the mission to foster the improvement of automated technologies for understanding machine printed doc… See more