optical character recognition

noun

Definitions

  1. The electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters…

    The electronic identification and digital encoding of printed or handwritten characters by means of an optical scanner and specialized software.

    • Texts were scanned, converted via optical character recognition, and part of speech tagged using CLAWS 7.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for optical character recognition. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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