History of OCR
OCR was invented by Ray Kurzweil in 1974. He invented it to read text printed in almost any font. It carried on developing, gaining from advancements in computer vision, artificial intelligence and machine learning. As a result, there was an improvement in accuracy and the capacity to identify more fonts and languages. With the introduction of smartphones and mobile apps, a larger audience now has access to OCR for activities like text recognition from photos.
What is Optical Character Recognition (OCR)?
By digitizing the document’s content, text-encased image files are produced. Word processing software cannot process text in photos the same way it does text documents. By transforming text photos into text data that can be evaluated by other business tools, OCR technology finds a solution to the issue. The data can then be used to perform analytics, declutter operations, automate procedures, and boost efficiency.