Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is the process that converts an image of text into a machine-readable text format. For example, if you scan a form or a receipt, your computer saves the scan as an image file, meaning you can’t use a text editor to edit, search, or count the words in the image. OCR converts the image into a text document with its contents stored as text data, therefore it can be edited and searched.

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