AI Glossary Term

What does “OCR (Optical Character Recognition)” mean?

Definition

Technology that converts text in images or scans into machine-readable text.

Related terms

Output Parser
Logic that validates and converts model output into strongly typed, machine-usable structures.
CLIP
A multimodal model architecture that learns shared representations between text and images.
Embedding
A numeric vector representation that captures semantic meaning of text, images, or other data.
Generative AI
AI systems that produce new content such as text, images, audio, video, or code.
Tokenization
The process of splitting text into tokens for model input.
BPE (Byte Pair Encoding)
A subword tokenization algorithm that merges the most frequent character pairs into reusable tokens.

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See also

NormalizationOpen-Source ModelNeural NetworkOverfittingNatural Language Processing (NLP)ParameterNamed Entity Recognition (NER)Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT)
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