OCR Handwriting Recognition Tech Explained(Ft.Google Translate)


OCR is the revolutionary technology that we use to recognize Handwriting in various applications like Google Translate to recognize Text that is handwritten and then translate it into the desired language. So in this article let's see how does this OCR Technology work, and it's possible applications.

 What is OCR Technology?

 OCR Stands for "Optical Character Recognition." OCR is a technology that recognizes text within a digital image. It is commonly used to recognize text in scanned documents, but it serves many other purposes as well.


How Does OCR Technology Work?
OCR software processes a digital image by locating and recognizing characters, such as letters, numbers, and symbols.OCR recognizes characters in a digital image by recognizing characteristics of handwriting. For eg.If we want the OCR Technology to recognize the letter"A" written on a  piece of paper. So we first click an image of the paper where the letter is handwritten. Then the OCR recognizes using characteristics like in the letter "A" we have 2 Slanting lines intersecting at a single point and a horizontal line at the center joining the two slanting lines all of this structural characteristics make up the letter "A".So the OCR takes into account these structural characteristics and recognizes the corresponding letter according to the characteristics that are preset into the software.   
 Some OCR software will simply export the text, while other programs can convert the characters to editable text directly in the image. Advanced OCR software can export the size and formatting of the text as well as the layout of the text found on a page.


Uses of OCR Technology in Daily Life
OCR technology can be used to convert a hard copy of a document into an electronic version (or soft copy. For example, if you scan a multipage document into a digital image, such as a TIFF file, you can load the document into an OCR program, which will recognize the text and convert the document to an editable text file. Some OCR programs allow you to scan a document and convert it into a word processing document in a single step.
While OCR technology was originally designed to recognize printed text, it can be used to recognize and verify handwritten text as well. For example, postal services such as USPS use OCR software to automatically process letters and packages based on the address. The algorithm checks the scanned information against a database of existing addresses to confirm the mailing address. 

The Google Translate app includes OCR technology that works with your device's camera. It allows you to capture the text from documents, magazines, signs, and other objects and translate it into another language in real-time.

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