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OCR

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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OCR /ˌəʊ siː ˈɑː $ ˌoʊ siː ˈɑːr/ noun [uncountable] technical  (optical character recognition) computer software that recognizes numbers and letters of the alphabet which are written on paper, so that information from paper documents can be scanned (scan) into a computer ()字符识别〔一种计算机软件,能识别写在纸上的数字和字母,以便把信息扫描进计算机〕
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OCRThe effect of this method was tested using a handwritten text and an OCR recognised printed text.TextPac, the software that controls this dedicated OCR device, has recently been joined by PublishPac.Handwriting recognition systems experience similar errors to those of OCR systems but to a greater degree.Text is captured through OCR if not already available in electronic form.An added bonus is that much faster input processing rates are possible with OCR than manual entry of the text.
From Longman Business DictionaryOCROCR nounCOMPUTING optical character recognition; a computer system for automatically recognizing letters and numbers that have been printed or written by hand on paperthe scanner’s built-in OCR software
OCR nounChinese
of the letters computer Business Corpus that alphabet software recognizes and numbers


OCR
OCR /ˌəʊ siː ˈɑː $ ˌoʊ siː ˈɑːr/ noun [uncountable] technical
(optical character recognition) computer software that recognizes numbers and letters of the alphabet which are written on paper, so that information from paper documents can be scanned into a computer


OCRBrE /ˌəʊ siː ˈɑː(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˌoʊ siː ˈɑːr/ 🔊 abbreviation (computing 计算机) optical character recognition 光符识别(用光学方法识别印刷字符)