41. It provides Optical Character Recognition ( OCR ) functionality to make documents searchable and perform data extraction. 42. The bundled software includes OCR ( optical character recognition ), which converts scanned text into editable copy. 43. In 2013 his optical character recognition team won the ICDAR Robust Reading Competition by a wide margin. 44. The text is run through an optical character recognition reader and indexed so it will be searchable. 45. It averaged 41 seconds in the optical character recognition ( OCR ) test with the TexBridge scan. 46. With optical character recognition , printed documents can be transformed directly into computer files, with their layout intact. 47. I also need bitmaps in order to apply a very simple neural networking technique for character recognition . 48. After you scan a document, the program offers to step you through the process of character recognition . 49. Optical Character Recognition ( OCR ) A software that converts scanned documents into a text file format. 50. Handwriting recognition principally entails optical character recognition .