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06 · Language & Perception

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

InterOperators

Extracting text from images of documents — scans, photos, PDFs. The bridge between paper and digital text.

Concrete example

Snapping a photo of a receipt and getting back editable, searchable text.

Nearby in Language & Perception

NLPNatural Language ProcessingNLU / NLGNatural Language Understanding / GenerationTTSText-to-Speech
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