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Finding Text

  • Why not just use standard optical character recognition (OCR)?

    • OCR is not effective for graphical images.

sample image from OCR

Long Description: Standard OCR often fails when recognizing text within images. In this example, standard OCR software has not recognized some text elements of the sample graph, and mis recognized some graph elements as text. This demonstrates how standard OCR does not work well with image files that contain text.

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