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  • Dasus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What’s OCR? Please elaborate. I could Google it, but a personal touch is always nice.

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      2 months ago

      OCR is an automation tool designed to pull text out of images or PDFs. It’s super useful, you can scan documents and then use OCR to create a markdown/plaintext copy that’s easier to search for. I like doing this for documents where I need the wording more than the paper itself, like my lease