Character recognition, usually abbreviated to optical characte r recognition or shortened OCR, is the

mechanical or electronic translation of images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text (usually

captured by a scanner) into machine - editable text. It is a field of research in pattern recognition,

artificial intelligence and machine vision. Though academic research in the field continues, the

focus on character recognition has shifted to implementation of proven techniques.

For many document - input tasks, character recognition is the most cost - effective and speedy method

available. And each year, the technology frees acres of storage space once given over to file cabinets

and boxes full of paper documents. -Character recognition, usually abbreviated to optical characte r recognition or shortened OCR, is the

mechanical or electronic translation of images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text (usually

captured by a scanner) into machine - editable text. It is a field of research in pattern recognition,

artificial intelligence　 and machine vision. Though academic research in the field continues, the

focus on character recognition has shifted to implementation of proven techniques.

For many document - input tasks, character recognition is the most cost - effective and speedy　method

available. And each year, the technology frees acres of storage space once given over to file cabinets

and boxes full of paper documents.