Retrieval
OCR (optical character recognition)
Turning images of text, such as scans, photos or PDFs, into machine-readable text.
Modern OCR models also understand layout, tables and handwriting, and output structured text ready for search or extraction. Arabic script and mixed-language documents remain harder than Latin text.
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What does OCR (optical character recognition) mean?
Turning images of text, such as scans, photos or PDFs, into machine-readable text. Modern OCR models also understand layout, tables and handwriting, and output structured text ready for search or extraction. Arabic script and mixed-language documents remain harder than Latin text.