Optical Character Recognition

Select three (3) definition of Optical Character Recognition.

• is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text

• is the process of reading information that people mark on surveys, tests and other paper documents.

• is used to turn scanned images and other visuals into text

• describes the process of converting printed or handwritten text into a digital format

This is for automating data extraction from printed or written text from a scanned document or image file and then converting the text into a machine-readable form

• Optical Mark Recognition (OCR) Technology

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Technology

• Magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) Technology

Select four (4) OCR softwares.

• Computer reading software.

• Digitizing software.

• Google Image

• Corel CorelScan.

• Document scanning software.

Give one example of OCR applications.

Select two (2) the uses of OCR?

• Google Image

• Banking

• Test papers

• Travelling

Select three (3) advantages of OCR.

• Enhanced customer satisfaction

• Cost-effective

• Slow up the process

• Improved productivity