OCR

See also: ocr

English

Proper noun

OCR

1. (education, UK) Initialism of Oxford, Cambridge & RSA (examination board).
2. (politics, US) Initialism of Office for Civil Rights.
   • 2024 November 14, Lauren del Valle, “After suicide of nonbinary teen, DOE finds multiple Title IX violations at Oklahoma school district”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.

3. (religion) Initialism of Office of the Chief Rabbi.

Noun

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) Initialism of obstacle course racing.
4. (sports, countable) Initialism of obstacle course race.
5. (construction, uncountable) Initialism of one coat render.

Translations

optical character recognition

• German: OZE (de) f (Optische Zeichenerkennung)
• Polish: OCR (pl) m
• Swedish: optisk teckenigenkänning (sv) c, maskinläsning c
• Turkish: OKT (tr)
• Xibe: ᠣᡠ
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  ᠠᠯ (oo syi al)

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• OCRable

Anagrams

• R.O.C., CoR, Orc, orc, cro, cor-, ORC, roc, Cor., CRO, RoC, cor., R. O. C., COR, ROC, cor