Optical character recognition
Analyze image pixels to recognize visible text characters.
When to consider it
- When a scan or image contains text that is not already machine-readable
Considerations
- Recognition quality depends on image quality, language data, and layout.
Connections
- In areaData & Preparation
- Supports functionRecognize text in images
- Used byTesseract OCR
Sources
Last reviewed 2026-09-30