OCR
noun [ U ] computing specialized uk/ˌəʊ.siːˈɑːr/ us/ˌoʊ.siːˈɑːr/
光符识别（optical character recognition的缩写）
abbreviation for optical character recognition: the process by which an electronic device recognizes printed or written letters or numbers
OCR saves re-keying documents.
Like many other OCR programs, it is bundled with certain scanner models.
- More examples
- It was software that combined traditional faxing, PC faxing and OCR.
- OCR systems electronically read typewritten text into a word-processing system rather than it having to be keyed in manually.
- The images have to be converted into text files first, using a scanner's OCR facility.