What kind of software can be used to copy the content from printed materials?
Printed material has to be converted to digital form before it can be distributed in accessible formats such as Braille, DAISY or EPUB. Show Print materials can be converted to a Microsoft Word document using the process described below. Once the content is in Microsoft Word, it is easy to convert it to other accessible formats.
ScanningScanning is the process of creating a digital image of a printed page. This is performed using a device called a scanner, which is attached to a computer. The digital image of the page is saved on the computer. Some scanners can also be attached to a mobile phone through a cable, Bluetooth, or over Wi-Fi. There is a wide variety of scanners available in the market. Such as:
Diffrent types of scanners can be seen in the video below. Video transcript for Scanners Optical Character Recognition (OCR)Once a scanner is attached to the computer, the scanning process is done using OCR software such as ABBYY Fine Reader, Omnipage, Kurzweil, or Open-book. After the image is captured, we get the option to extract text from the image. Instead of extracting text from every page, we can scan multiple pages and then begin the text extraction process in one go. If an ADF scanner is used, then images of the whole book is captured before running the text extraction process. Text extraction is possible only if the language of the book is supported by the OCR software being used. After the text is extracted, we can export the text as a Microsoft Word document. Watch the video below to see the demonstration of the process. Video transcript for OCR Although ABBYY FineReader OCR supports more than 200 languages, many Asian and African languages are not yet supported. In such a case, you should check if your language is supported in other OCR solutions such as the Google OCR. If it is, you can scan the book using FineReader or any other scanning utility and save the book as image PDF file. What is OCR in printing?Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process that converts an image of text into a machine-readable text format. For example, if you scan a form or a receipt, your computer saves the scan as an image file. You cannot use a text editor to edit, search, or count the words in the image file.
What is OCR software?What is OCR? OCR stands for "Optical Character Recognition." It is a technology that recognizes text within a digital image. It is commonly used to recognize text in scanned documents and images. OCR software can be used to convert a physical paper document, or an image into an accessible electronic version with text.
Where is OCR used?OCR has been mostly used for converting physical documents into machine-readable or searchable formats that can then be edited on word processors.
What is the full form of OCR?The full form of OCR is Optical character recognition. It is also recognized as a text recognition or OCR (optical character reader). It is needed to convert editable, readable, & searchable data from scanned paper records or photographs of documents taken by a digital camera.
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