Optical Character Recognition

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology that can read a

machine-printed document. The more specific use case of OCR is in
automated data capture solutions and document classification. Using
OCR, you can reduce the time needed for manual data entry and
document processing. These solutions can recognize images, photos,
or documents and identify the data for extraction.

Types of OCR

● Intelligent Word Recognition – IWR captures cursive text or

handwritten texts. Their algorithm works by recognizing an entire
unconstrained handwritten word rather than picking up individual
characters.

● Intelligent Character Recognition – ICR captures handwritten

or cursive text. The engine works by identifying a single
character at a time and evolves with its embedded machine
learning.

● Optical Word Recognition – OWR Targets typewritten text

wordwise and is sometimes referred to as OCR

● Optical Character Recognition – OCR captures typewritten

text and goes one character at a time.

● Optical Mark Recognition – OMR is a technique of gathering

human input data by recognizing marks or patterns on a
document.