eArchive-OCR
UX and UI Design • Web App
Optical character recognition (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.
These days OCR is a key tool for digitizing documents.
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition software. The earliest version of OCR technology was invented in 1914, long before the invention of PDF or other digital document formats. It was used to read strings of text and convert them into telegraph code. Now, OCR is used everywhere from data entry to license plate recognition and has become a key tool for recognizing and digitizing handwritten and scanned documents without needing to retype.
OCR UX EXPERIENCE
OCR software can be used to convert a physical paper document, or an image into an accessible electronic version with text. For example, if you scan a paper document or photograph with a printer, the printer will most likely create a file with a digital image in it. The file could be a JPG/TIFF or PDF, but the new electronic file may still be only an image of the original document.
