Optical Character Recognition

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Unicode block is a range of code points in the Unicode standard that represents a variety of characters used in optical character recognition (OCR) systems. OCR is a technology that allows computers to recognize and process printed or handwritten text, and is commonly used in a variety of applications, such as scanning documents, recognizing license plates, and reading text from scanned images. The OCR Unicode block includes a wide range of characters, such as digits, letters, and punctuation marks, as well as a number of other symbols and characters that are commonly used in OCR systems. The OCR Unicode block is part of the Unicode standard, which is a standardized character encoding system that allows computers to store and display text in a wide variety of scripts and languages.