Dictionary

OCR en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of optical character recognition (the technology or principle).
   alt of optical character recognition
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism) Initialism of optical character reader (the scanning device).
   alt of optical character reader
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of obstacle course racing.
   alt of obstacle course racing
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism) Initialism of obstacle course race.
   alt of obstacle course race
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of one coat render.
   alt of one coat render

Forms

Translations (6)

sv optisk teckenigenkänning (optical character recognition) · de OZE (Optische Zeichenerkennung) (optical character recognition) · pl OCR (optical character recognition) · sv maskinläsning (optical character recognition) · sjo ᠣᡠ ᠰᡟᡞ ᠠᠯ (optical character recognition) · tr OKT (optical character recognition)

wikidata: Q167555

OCR en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Oxford, Cambridge & RSA (examination board).
   alt of Cambridge & RSA
   alt of Oxford
2. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Office for Civil Rights.
   alt of Office for Civil Rights
   • “As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads. 2024 November 14, Lauren del Valle, “After suicide of nonbinary teen, DOE finds multiple Title IX violations at Oklahoma school district”, in CNN:
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Office of the Chief Rabbi.
   alt of Office of the Chief Rabbi

OCR en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To perform optical character recognition upon.
   • Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, OCRs, and stores in its digital database.

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Deriveds

OCRable