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The 15 pages that link to Optical character recognition, each with the reason it gives.

• Screen readerRelated: OCR can make image-based text available to screen readers when it is not otherwise exposed.

• Pattern recognitionBroader topic: It identifies letter patterns in images and turns them into text.

• Internet ArchiveRelated: OCR makes many digitized books searchable as text.

• TokenizationRelated: Tokenization commonly follows recognition, preparing extracted text for downstream language processing.

• DigitizationRelated: It turns scanned page images into searchable, editable text.

• Image processingBroader topic: Image cleanup and character segmentation prepare document images for recognition.

• SubtitlesRelated: OCR can extract subtitles that are embedded in video frames.

• BarcodeCompared with: Unlike barcode decoding, it identifies character shapes rather than a standardized symbol pattern.

• Digital typographyRelated: OCR reverses digital typography’s usual direction, interpreting rendered letterforms as encoded text.

• Document management systemRelated: OCR makes scanned pages searchable by their text.

• Urdu alphabetRelated: Urdu’s joining forms and calligraphic layouts complicate automated text recognition.

• Image scannerRelated: OCR can turn a scanned page into searchable, editable text.

• Adobe AcrobatRelated: Acrobat uses OCR to make scanned pages searchable and editable.

• Numerical digitRelated: Recognizing written digits is a common task for character-recognition systems.

• Ray KurzweilNarrower topic: Kurzweil’s reading machine combined recognition across typefaces with speech output for blind users.