What is an OCR technology?
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. When you scan a text document, the computer can only see this text as graphical figures on a page. That text is not usable, searchable, or editable. It’s considered as an image. OCR programs are designed to read this text and recognize it. It is a software that converts the shapes (in a scanned text) into a text document. However, there may be some errors especially if the font is small or the scanning unclear. But after all, it is considered as a faster and more time-saving way than typing the text.
