OCR: Essentials, Workings, Types, Challenges
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A deep dive into Optical Character Recognition (OCR): its essentials, workings, types, approaches, and challenges.
What is OCR? Optical Character Recognition is a computer vision task that is used to extract textual information from visual data, usually scanned documents, images, and PDFs. In this post, we will explore this technology:
In today's article:
- OCR Essentials and Workings
- OCR Approaches and Evaluation
- OCR Challenges
OCR is a central technology used alongside multimodal AI. It is often combined with NLP in pipelines. Learn More.