Nolij Forms Processing for Higher Education: Optical Character Recognition

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a technology designed to locate, recognize, extract, and output (e.g. text file, database table) machine-printed information from paper documents. OCR is typically used when processing forms that do not contain hand-printed text, such as high school and college transcripts. OCR recognition of machine-printed text is highly accurate due to the consistency and readability of machine generated letters and numbers.