Optical Character Recognition

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Optical character recognition

Eurovoc reference

6190 Optical character recognition

Related concepts

• Scanner

Alternative Concepts

• OCR
• Optical reading

Scope

The process of optical character recognition consists in the conversion, by means of a scanner or machine which recognises letters and characters through a mechanism of electronic conversion using a light source, of a numeric image into text, which can th

Other Languages

• Spanish: Reconocimiento óptico de caracteres
• French: Reconnaissance optique de caractères
• German: Optische Zeichenerkennung
• Italian: Riconoscimento ottico dei caratteri
• Portuguese: Leitura ótica de carateres
• Polish: Optyczne rozpoznawanie znaków

Properties and Values of Optical character recognition

• URI https://en.legalthesaurus.org/optical-character-recognition/
• skos:Concept: https://en.legalthesaurus.org/optical-character-recognition/

Preferred lexical labels

• skos:prefLabel: Optical character recognition (en) (USE)
• Term in other languages: see above

Generic concepts

• skos:broader: See above (GT)
• skos:hasTopConcept: See above (Areas)

Specific concepts

• skos:narrower: See the specific concepts above (ST)

Related concepts

• skos:related: see the associative relationships above (RT)
• skos:related: related (other related concepts)

Alternative lexical labels

• skos:altLabel: see the alternative concepts above (UF)
• skos:altLabel: synonym (S)
• skos:altLabel: look up Optical character recognition abbreviations and acronyms (A)

Documentation notes

• skos:scopeNote: this concept on Optical character recognition defines the activities of Optical character recognition (en)
• skos:editorialNote: Editorial Note on Optical character recognition (EN)
• skos:notation: Notation on Optical character recognition: see reference Eurovoc (N)
• skos:definition: Optical character recognition definition:
• skos:example: example of Optical character recognition usage:

Thematic indexing

• dct:subject: https://lawin.org/optical-character-recognition/
• Definitions: See the meaning(s) of Optical character recognition
• Search the digital platform (S)

Other general information

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