What is OCR (optical character recognition)?
OCR is technology that reads text from images and scanned documents and turns it into editable, searchable text. Modern document AI combines OCR with language models to understand what the text means.
Why it matters for your business
OCR is the first step in automating paperwork such as invoices, forms and receipts, removing hours of manual data entry.
Scanned supplier invoices are read with OCR, and the invoice number, date and total are posted to the accounting system for approval.