OCR or Optical Character Recognition is the process of identifying characters from images of printed/handwritten text and converting them to a machine editable format. (For instance, with OCR you can convert JPEG to Word). By the online OCR service - OCR Terminal. Transcript: Optical Character Recognition or OCR is the process of extracting text, in reality characters, from images. Let me give you an example. This is a scanned jpeg image from some document. Traditional scanners scan your documents into image and nothing more. Thats similar to taking a photo of your documents using your camera. And as you can see, these images are neither searchable nor editable. OCR technology converts these scanned images and pdf files making them editable and searchable in a variety of formats word, text, rtf. This is indeed useful if you have many scanned images/pdf files to scan through. Modern OCR engines not only recognize characters, but also preserve font-sizes, column layouting, tabular data, headers, ...
