OCR

OCR

Optical Character Recognition. The process of extracting words (and possibly layout and formatting information) from an image containing text. cf OMR.

Most scanners will come with bundled OCR software.

For more information see:

• http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ - Open source character recognition.
• www.simpleocr.com - Royalty free OCR API (not freeware) and simple free Windows application for basic OCR.