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78 CHAPTER 8: CONVERTING ITEMS TO TEXT WITH OCRWHAT IS OCROCR is the computer’s way of recognizing that a picture of an “S” isreally the letter S, that the picture of a “W” is really the letter W, and soon for each letter’s picture in a scanned item.The OCR application looks at each letter on a page, and if it recognizesthe letter’s shape converts it into the appropriate text character. Whenthe analysis of the page is complete, the OCR application puts the textcharacters onto a page in about the same format as the pictures of texton the original scanned item.The page is now a document containing text that a word-processingapplication can recognize. You can then edit the text as you normallywould when word-processing a document.The process is not always perfect. If the item contains smudges orhandwritten notes, the OCR application tries to analyze them but, ofcourse, is not always able to make a suitable match. For that reason, youshould carefully check the converted document to correct any mistakesthat the OCR application makes. You should also start with as clean asdocument as possible, such as by scanning at a higher resolution.