Blog about Optical Character Recognition and Conversion

  • What is OCR-A FONT?

    During image conversion this font uses plain, thick strokes to shape familiar characters. It has a fixed width (monospaced); the printer is required to leave glyphs at a distance of 0.10 inch (0.254 …

  • What is an OCR?

    Optical character recognition (OCR) is the electronic conversion of a scanned picture to text format. It is extensively used to convert books and documents into electronic files, computerize a record- …

  • Uploading and converting text images to Google Docs

    OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION Optical character recognition (shortened to OCR) enables you to convert images text images into editable documents. It does this with the use of sophisticated computer …

  • How to use Google OCR text?

    The most popular search engine throughout the world has now sponsored OCR software, which can perform OCR functions on digital images. However, this feature is not yet available on Google docs but …

  • BEST OCR Software for MAC

    Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software allows a Mac to interpret and convert text characters rendered in a graphics format such as TIFF into editable text. We shall take a look at some of the …

  • Convert JPEG images and documents into text

    The best way to convert your scanned images to text files or word documents is with an OCR application. OCR is the acronym for optical character recognition and is software, which allows you to …

  • How to Convert PDF to JPG

    The answer to this question lies in the way you view a PDF document. PDF’s require external programs like Adobe Acrobat Reader, whereas JPG’s do not. In order to facilitate easy viewing of a …

  • Open source OCR software by Google

    In April 2007 at the IUPR Research Group, Google sponsored the development of open source OCR software called- OCRopus, it was a high-tech document analysis and Optical Character Recognition system. …

  • What is Optical Character Recognition

    OCR is a technology designed to convert scanned, printed or handwritten imagery into machine decipherable text format. The image conversion software analyses the document and compares it with fonts …