Optical+Charater+Recognition-+OCR

Orla O'Neill

=Optical Character Recognition- OCR=


 * __What is it?__**

This is the process of converting handwritten, typewritten or printed text into text that you can edit. You would use OCR to convert, for example, old history documents to text so that they could be read online.

- It is only about 95% accurate, so it may not be able to convert a document into editable text - Recognition of documents could be poor especially with unusual fonts and bad quality originals
 * __Disadvantages of OCR:__**

__**Advantages of OCR:**__ - Can convert large amounts of text into digital form

__**Where is it being used?**__

OCR is being used in libraries to try and preserve their holdings. OCR is also used to process cheques and credit card slips and sort mail. Millions of magazines and newspapers are sorted by OCR machines everyday, and this speeds up the delivery.