Hello、munejyuka。

today、I heard the word OCR at work.。

I had never heard of it.、The people around me were like, hmmmmm...

I felt like I was the only one who didn't know、I think it's good to know at least a little bit about it.、I looked into it。

What does OCR stand for?

First、First, I looked into what the letters OCR stand for.。

What is OCR?、

Optical＝optical Character＝character Recognition＝recognition

It seems like the word was created by taking the initials of。

If you look into it a little more、

Read handwritten and printed text、Judging the characters by comparing them with the data、A device that converts text into electronic text.。
Read the image with a scanner、There is also software that identifies characters and creates documents.。

It was written that。

The point is、

Replace handwritten text with electronic text

That's right。

Is it something unique to modern society?。

Digitize text and reduce paper documents! and、Not only that...

By digitizing characters written on paper using OCR、Physical storage space can be reduced。

Also、By converting characters as images into text data、In addition to the file size becoming overwhelmingly smaller、Data reuse such as diversion and diversion becomes easier.、Keyword search is now possible、Improves ease of handling。

Also、More than just paper reduction、It is said that the range of applications will expand, such as cooperation with voice reading software.。

It's amazing that it's come this far。

Summary

This OCR seems to have been around for a while.、In conventional OCR、Kanji and hiragana、It seems that they were not good at Japanese sentences mixed with katakana etc. and handwritten ones.。

It seems that the technology has finally evolved to a level where it can be used.。

It's really amazing!

I think the demand will definitely increase from now on.、I want to keep an eye on it! !