Multimedia Production

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION 4(1+3)

Lesson 3 : Storage Device

Ocr scanner

With optical character recognition (OCR) software, a flat-bed scanner and our computer, we can save many hours of rekeying printed words, and get the job done faster and more accurately than roomful of typists. OCR software turns bitmapped characters into electronically recognizable ASCII text. A scanner is typically used to create the bitmap. Then the software breaks the bitmap and by detecting edges. The text areas are then converted into ASCII character using probability and expert system algorithms.