Oxford logo
Toggle navigation
Redeem
Upgrade
Help
Sign in
Dictionaries
Dictionaries home
English
American English
Academic
Collocations
German-English
Grammar
Grammar home
Practical English Usage
Learn & Practise Grammar (Beta)
Word Lists
Word Lists home
My Word Lists
Topics
Recent additions
Resources
Resources home
Text Checker
Sign in
Dictionaries
Dictionaries home
English
American English
Academic
Collocations
German-English
Grammar
Grammar home
Practical English Usage
Learn & Practise Grammar (Beta)
Word Lists
Word Lists home
My Word Lists
Topics
Recent additions
Resources
Resources home
Text Checker
Redeem
Upgrade
Help
TOP
American English
English
American English
Academic English
Collocations
Practical English Usage
German-English
English-German
English
American English
Enter search text
Definition of
optical character recognition noun
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
optical character recognition
noun
noun
[
uncountable
]
(
abbreviation
OCR
)
(
computing
)
jump to other results
the process of using light to record printed information onto disks for use in a computer system
See
optical character recognition
in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Check pronunciation:
optical character recognition
Nearby words
optic
adjective
optical
adjective
optical character recognition
noun
optical fiber
noun
optical illusion
noun