Optical Character Recognition

OCR scanning machineOptical Character Recognition, or OCR, is special software that is used to scan and convert text from paper documents, electronic documents and .pdf files into searchable, readable, editable data. This conversion creates .pdf files, Word formatted files, or text-only files. Please note that the OCR service does have some limitations.

Please contact Uniprint to find out if our OCR service would meet your needs.

Do you have a question? Please see our Frequently Asked Questions about Optical Scanning Recognition.

 

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