OCR (Optical Character Recognition) & ICR ( Intelligent Character Recognition)

This is a process that translates images of handwritten text into machine-editable text , or pictures of characters into a standard encoding scheme representing them in ASCII or Unicode.  An OCR system enables us to feed a book or a magazine article directly into an electronic computer file and edit the file using a word processor.

Different types of  OCR resources utilized in data entry include –

  • Type written OCR
  • Hand print OCR
  • Cursive OCR
  • Music OCR
  • Research Areas
  • MICR

ICR ( Intelligent Character Recognition)

A process that translates handwritten text into machine-readable characters. ICR technology permits data capture software to automatically read information from all types of documents