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Submitted to: Miss Ayesha
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Submitted By: Mudasar Ellahi 
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Class: BSCS (A) -1
 
What is OCR? (Definition): -
 Often abbreviated 
OCR
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Optical Character Recognition
refers to thebranch of computer science that involves reading text from paper and translating the images into a form that the computer can manipulate(for example, into ASCII codes). An OCR system enables you to take abook or a magazine article, feed it directly into an electronic computer file, and then edit the file using a word processor.Or 
OCR
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Optical Character Recognition
 ) is the recognition of printed or written text characters by a computer. This involves photo scanning of the text character-by-character, analysis of the scanned-in image, and then translation of the character image into character codes, such as ASCII, commonly used in data processing.
How it Works: -
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 All OCR systems include anoptical scanner for readingtext, and sophisticated software for analyzingimages. Most OCR systemsuse a combination of hardware (specialized circuit boards) and software torecognize characters,although some inexpensivesystems do it entirely throughsoftware. Advanced OCRsystems can read text inlarge variety of fonts, but they still have difficulty withhandwritten text.
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In OCR processing, the scanned-in image or bitmap is analyzed for light and dark areas in order to identify each alphabetic letter or numeric digit. When a character is recognized, it is converted into an ASCII code.
 
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Older OCR systems match these images against stored bitmapsbased on specific fonts. The hit-or-miss results of such pattern-recognition systems helped establish OCR's reputation for inaccuracy.
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Today's OCR engines add the multiple algorithms of neuralnetwork technology to analyze the stroke edge, the line of discontinuity between the text characters, and the background. Allowing for irregularities of printed ink on paper, each algorithmaverages the light and dark along the side of a stroke, matches it to known characters and makes a best guess as to whichcharacter it is. The OCR software then averages or polls theresults from all the algorithms to obtain a single reading.
List of OCR Software: -
There are many softwares available over the Internet for OCR. Here aresome of them.
ExperVision
 ABBYY 
 AnyDoc Software
OmniPage
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