OCR finds and transcribes text on screen: signs, captions, documents, plates. In video it must cope with motion, angle, and low resolution. It feeds search, compliance, and indexing of footage that would otherwise be opaque to software.
Definition
Optical Character Recognition — reading text inside images or video frames and turning it into machine-readable characters.
OCR finds and transcribes text on screen: signs, captions, documents, plates. In video it must cope with motion, angle, and low resolution. It feeds search, compliance, and indexing of footage that would otherwise be opaque to software.
Also known as
optical character recognition, text recognition