What is OCR

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is used to analyze text in images. The proposed algorithm deals with taking scanned copy of a document as an input and extract texts from the image into a text format using Otsu’s algorithm for segmentation and Hough transform method for skew detection .

Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text , whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene-photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) …

There are two main methods for extracting features in OCR: