0 abbreviation for optical character recognition: the process by which an electronic device recognizes printed or written letters or numbers: --
1 abbreviation for optical character recognition --
The images have to be converted into text files first, using a scanner's OCR facility.
OCR systems electronically read typewritten text into a word-processing system rather than it having to be keyed in manually.
It was software that combined traditional faxing, PC faxing and OCR.