OCR is a technology that enables the conversion of text within images (such as scanned documents, photos of text) into machine - readable text. OCR software first analyzes the image, identifying characters based on their shape and pattern. It then converts these characters into an editable text format, which can be used for various purposes like data entry, document search, and digital archiving. Google's Cloud Vision API and Tesseract (an open - source OCR engine) are popular tools for performing OCR tasks.
