Optical character recognition (OCR)

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Technology that reads the characters visible in an image or document and turns them into machine-readable text, without by itself knowing what that text means.

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Mastering Azure AI Search: Beyond Traditional Keyword Matching
2026-08-27 · Mirko Peters
Welcome to our deep dive into the world of cloud-based discovery and retrieval systems. If you have ever typed a query into a company intranet, e-commerce site, or …

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