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Optical character recognition (OCR) or optical character reader is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text superimposed…
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The extracted context around Optical character recognition shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Optical character recognition → Albe, Concurrently, Early, Edmund Fournier, Emanuel Goldberg, IBM, In, Optophone, Statistical Machine, The, US Patent Another extracted example is Optical character recognition → Handwriting, ICR, Instead, Intelligent, IWR, OCR, OCR API, Optical, There, This, Usually. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 40 structured relationships around Optical character recognition. Examples in this analysis include cognitive computing → instance of → and used in machine processes and receipts → instance of → ApplicationsOCR engines have been developed into software applications specializing in various subjects. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cognitive computing | instance of | and used in machine processes | 0.80 | text |
| machine translation | instance of | and used in machine processes | 0.80 | text |
| receipts | instance of | ApplicationsOCR engines have been developed into software applications specializing in various subjects | 0.80 | text |
| invoices | instance of | ApplicationsOCR engines have been developed into software applications specializing in various subjects | 0.80 | text |
| checks | instance of | ApplicationsOCR engines have been developed into software applications specializing in various subjects | 0.80 | text |
| and legal billing documents.The software can be used for | instance of | ApplicationsOCR engines have been developed into software applications specializing in various subjects | 0.80 | text |
| Cuneiform | instance of | Nearest neighbour classifiers such as the k-nearest neighbors algorithm are used to compare image features with stored glyph features and choose the nearest match.Software | 0.80 | text |
| Tesseract use a two-pass approach to character recognition | instance of | Nearest neighbour classifiers such as the k-nearest neighbors algorithm are used to compare image features with stored glyph features and choose the nearest match.Software | 0.80 | text |
| Arial or Times New Roman | instance of | Several prominent OCR engines were designed to capture text in popular fonts | 0.80 | text |
| and are incapable of capturing text in these fonts that are specialized | instance of | Several prominent OCR engines were designed to capture text in popular fonts | 0.80 | text |
| very different from popularly used fonts | instance of | Several prominent OCR engines were designed to capture text in popular fonts | 0.80 | text |
| Optical character recognition | related to External links | Unicode OCR | 0.60 | section |
The concept neighborhoods around Optical character recognition bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Optical, Recognition and Accuracy. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Optical character recognition, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Optical character recognition with Techniques. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Optical character recognition to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Works & Applications, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Optical character recognition · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout