Why Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ?

Firstly, let’s define the Optical Character Recognition “OCR” as the process of converting the text that is in photos, PDFs, scanned papers, screenshots or even the handwriting or the printed text into an editable and searchable format.

So, whenever you receive an email, contract, image or whatever type of documents that you need to edit its content, now by using the Optical Character Recognition “OCR” you will be able to access the content and apply your updates on it.

For instance, let’s say that you have an article or a text written in a magazine and you need to use and edit it. So, you’ll retype the whole article and start to edit it which will consume a lot of time.

So, by using OCR software, you can simply digitize the whole text in minutes.

Benefits of Using OCR

• It saves time as the whole process of scanning takes less than one minute,
• With OCR you can capture any text you see, whether it is in a magazine, a banner, a poster, etc., then using the OCR will allow you to access such text and quotes to re-purpose them,
• The final version doesn’t differ from the original one.

So, from the above, we can say that Optical Character Recognition is a software that eases the scanning or the retyping process.