What do we understand by OCR?

In a digitized world, processing information quickly and accurately is critical. OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, plays an important role in this. But what exactly is OCR and how does it work?
OCR, Optical Character Recognition, or text recognition, is a technology that enables the conversion of different documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or digital images, into editable and searchable files.
In a digitized world, processing information quickly and accurately is critical. OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, plays an important role in this. But what exactly is OCR and how does it work?