OCR
See also: ocr
English
Proper noun
OCR
- (education, UK) Initialism of Oxford, Cambridge & RSA (examination board).
- (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.
- (religion) Initialism of Office of the Chief Rabbi.
Noun
OCR (countable and uncountable, plural OCRs)
- (computing, uncountable) Initialism of optical character recognition (the technology or principle).
- (computing, countable) Initialism of optical character reader (the scanning device).
- (sports, uncountable) Initialism of obstacle course racing.
- (sports, countable) Initialism of obstacle course race.
- (construction, uncountable) Initialism of one coat render.
Translations
optical character recognition
Verb
OCR (third-person singular simple present OCRs, present participle OCRing, simple past and past participle OCRed)
- (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.