Simple OCR is a program to detect and extract words from a document in image format. The goal of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is to classify optical patterns (often contained in a digital image) corresponding to alphanumeric or other characters. The process of OCR involves several steps including segmentation, feature extraction, and classification. goals of this program:
- People wish to scan in a document and have the text of that document available in a word processor.
- Recognizing license plate numbers
- Post Office needs to recognize zip-codes