OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Technology that converts images of text into machine-readable text.
Definition
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is technology that converts images of text—such as scanned documents or photographs—into machine-readable text. Traditional OCR recognises characters based on their visual patterns. Modern OCR systems incorporate AI to improve accuracy, handle varied fonts and handwriting, and understand document structure beyond just text extraction.
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Automatically pulling structured information from unstructured documents.
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Automatically categorising documents by type, topic, or purpose.
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
AI-powered automation that extracts, classifies, and processes data from documents.
Document Parsing
Converting documents into structured, machine-readable data.
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