OCR or Optical Character Recognition is a technology used to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or images captured by a digital camera, into editable and searchable data.
OCR is important in AI/Large Language Models because it allows these models to understand and interact with text in images or non-digital formats. This significantly expands the range of tasks AI models can perform, from analyzing printed documents to understanding street signs in autonomous vehicle systems.
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