About OCR

Suppose you wanted to digitize a magazine article or a printed contract. You could spend hours retyping and then correcting misprints. Or you could convert all the required materials into digital format in several minutes using a scanner (or a digital camera) and Optical Character Recognition software.

• What exactly is meant by OCR?
• What technology lies behind OCR?
• What principles is FineReader OCR based on?
• Recognition of Digital Camera images
• How to use OCR software?

In this section you will find answers to all above mentioned questions.

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Digital cameras are becoming more and more popular and truly multipurpose. In addition to everything else, you can use your camera as a portable “scanner” to capture text from hardcopy documents, books, newspapers, as well as from banners, posters and other media. Then, with ABBYY FineReader, you can convert your camera images into electronic text files for editing, archiving, creating new documents and for other purposes.

• Where can I use my digital camera to capture text?
• Tips&Tricks for shooting text with a digital camera

To learn more about Digital Camera OCR visit this section.

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