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  1. Reference
  2. Optical character recognition (OCR)

Glossary

Optical character recognition (OCR)

Software that reads text from images of pages. It is one step in reading scans, often paired with layout analysis.

  • Also written as: OCR

Where it is explained

  • Multimodal GenAI and document AIMultimodal and document AI

See also

Terms explained in the same lessons.

  • Field-level accuracy
  • Layout analysis
  • Page-image retrieval
  • Parsing
  • Vision-language model (VLM)
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