OCR

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English

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Proper noun

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OCR

  1. (education, UK) Initialism of Oxford, Cambridge & RSA (examination board)
  2. (politics, US) Initialism of Office for Civil Rights.
  3. (religion) Initialism of Office of the Chief Rabbi.

Noun

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OCR (countable and uncountable, plural OCRs)

  1. (computing, uncountable) Initialism of optical character recognition (the technology or principle).
  2. (computing, countable) Initialism of optical character reader (the scanning device).
  3. (sports, uncountable) Abbreviation of obstacle course racing.
  4. (sports, countable) Abbreviation of obstacle course race.
  5. (construction, uncountable) Initialism of one coat render.

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Verb

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OCR (third-person singular simple present OCRs, present participle OCRing, simple past and past participle OCRed)

  1. (transitive) To perform optical character recognition upon.
    Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, OCRs, and stores in its digital database.

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