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OCR

In plain words

Software that reads the words inside a picture.

Optical character recognition turns pixels into text. That is how a photo of a menu, a screenshot of a chat, or a scanned contract becomes something you can search, copy, and simplify.

In a sentence

“I dropped in a screenshot and OCR pulled out every line of the terms.”

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