Summary
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- optical character recognition:
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Wiktionary:
- optical character recognition → optische Zeichenerkennung, Texterkennung
English
Detailed Translations for optical character recognition from English to German
optical character recognition:
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optical character recognition
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the optical character recognition (OCR)
– The process in which an electronic device examines printed characters on paper and determines their shapes by detecting patterns of dark and light. Once the scanner or reader has determined the shapes, character recognition methods-pattern matching with stored sets of characters-are used to translate the shapes into computer text. 1
Translation Matrix for optical character recognition:
| Not Specified | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| OCR | OCR; optical character recognition | |
| optische Zeichenerkennung | OCR; optical character recognition |
Related Definitions for "optical character recognition":
Wiktionary Translations for optical character recognition:
optical character recognition
noun
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the electronic identification and digital encoding of characters
- optical character recognition → optische Zeichenerkennung; Texterkennung