optical character recognition (OCR)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/optical_character_recognition_(OCR)

GPTKB entity

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:technology
gptkbp:abbreviation	gptkb:OCR
gptkbp:application	gptkb:assistive_technology text-to-speech document automation data entry digitizing printed texts
gptkbp:challenge	handwritten text multilingual documents poor image quality complex fonts noisy backgrounds skewed images
gptkbp:developedBy	early 20th century
gptkbp:enables	accessibility for visually impaired editing scanned documents indexing scanned documents searching scanned documents translation of text images
gptkbp:field	computer vision pattern recognition
gptkbp:format	gptkb:HTML gptkb:Word_document PDF plain text
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	optical character recognition (OCR)
gptkbp:input	scanned documents photographs of text
gptkbp:method	gptkb:machine_learning deep learning feature extraction pattern matching image preprocessing
gptkbp:notableCompany	gptkb:Google gptkb:Microsoft gptkb:ABBYY gptkb:Adobe gptkb:Nuance_Communications
gptkbp:notableContributor	gptkb:Ray_Kurzweil
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:Adobe_Acrobat gptkb:ABBYY_FineReader gptkb:Google_Cloud_Vision_API gptkb:OmniPage gptkb:Readiris gptkb:Tesseract gptkb:Microsoft_OneNote
gptkbp:output	searchable text editable text machine-encoded text
gptkbp:relatedTo	handwriting recognition intelligent character recognition (ICR) optical mark recognition (OMR)
gptkbp:standard_file_format	gptkb:ALTO_XML gptkb:PDF/A gptkb:hOCR gptkb:DjVu
gptkbp:used_in	gptkb:archives gptkb:government_agency libraries businesses
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:DocuWare_On-Premises
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6