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Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

A process in which a machine scans, recognizes, and encodes printed (and possibly handwritten) characters into digital form.


Articles on KurzweilAI.net that refer to Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

The Age of Intelligent Machines: A Personal Postscript By Ray Kurzweil
Kurzweil Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame By National Inventors Hall of Fame
The Age of Spiritual Machines: Glossary By Ray Kurzweil
Are We Becoming An Endangered Species? Technology and Ethics in the 21st Century By Washington National Cathedral
Foreword to Electronic Reporting in the Digital Medical Enterprise By Ray Kurzweil
The Law of Accelerating Returns By Ray Kurzweil
$500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize awarded to futurist who makes a career of helping others By Lemelson-MIT Program
Technology: There's a Future In It By Colin Brayton
Foreword to 'Dark Ages II' (book by Bryan Bergeron) By Ray Kurzweil
The Age of Spiritual Machines: Timeline By Ray Kurzweil

News Articles that refer to Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Ray Kurzweil to receive The Economist's Innovation Award
Kurzweil awarded MIT's Lemelson Prize for Invention and Innovation
Kurzweil inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Kurzweil, Rapoport receive national inventors awards
Bush, Kennedy laud Kurzweil award from American Foundation for the Blind
When Will AI Get Down to Business?
Kurzweil to present awards at National Federation of the Blind conference
Kurzweil receives honorary doctorate at Landmark College
Camera phones will be high-precision scanners
knfbReader opens the world of text to the blind

Research

Scansoft
ScanSoft, Inc. is the leading provider of digital imaging software. ScanSoft develops OCR, Web publishing, electronic forms, document management, photo imaging, and media asset management software.