What is Optical Character Recognition

Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo or from subtitle text superimposed on an image.

How you will benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Optical character recognition

Chapter 2: Typeface

Chapter 3: Handwriting recognition

Chapter 4: Image scanner

Chapter 5: Optical mark recognition

Chapter 6: Intelligent character recognition

Chapter 7: Tesseract (software)

Chapter 8: OCRopus

Chapter 9: CuneiForm (software)

Chapter 10: Comparison of optical character recognition software

(II) Answering the public top questions about optical character recognition.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of optical character recognition in many fields.

Who this book is for

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Optical Character Recognition.