A technology that turns words in images or scans into text a computer can use.
OCR is a phone camera with reading glasses. It squints at a blurry receipt and turns the printed mess into real text.
You meet it in receipt apps and scanned contracts. It turns screenshots into copyable words too.
Computer Vision
OCR is one of the classic real-world tasks in Computer Vision.
Document parsing
Document parsing often uses OCR first, then pulls out fields and structure.
Multimodal AI
OCR turns words in images into text for Multimodal AI to read.
AI File Upload
After a user uploads an image or PDF, OCR often extracts the text first.