Automation - Technology
OCR
(Optical Character Recognition)
Technology that turns text in images or scans into searchable, editable digital text
What's it for?
Turns words in scans and images into searchable, editable text.
For example…
Accounts scan supplier invoices; OCR extracts totals and invoice numbers into the finance system for matching
OCR reads the printed text from scanned invoices so supplier names and amounts can be searched or passed into an automated workflow
Think of it like…
Typist reading a photocopied letter and keying it into a document—useful, but smudges cause mistakes