A Girl's OCR TechBlog

ABBYY software: FineReader, OCR system (standard and professional) FineReader Development Tools ACTIVE RECORD Software Systems Ltd., OCR, ICR, OMR and bar codes Ocular - Com...

What does OCR stand for?
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. This term is typically used for general character recognition which includes the transformation of anything humanly readable to machine manipulatable representation.

In this context the task of character recognition involves understanding of machine printed characters and handwritten ch...