OCR — Legalnaut glossary  A Markdown version of this page is available at https://legalnaut.com/glossary/ocr.md for AI and LLM tools. 

  OCR
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 OCR turns an image of text, such as a scan or a photograph of a page, into text a computer can search.

Court files are full of documents that exist only as scans, often photocopied several times over. Without OCR those documents are invisible to search, which means they are invisible to whoever is preparing the case.

Quality varies with the source. A clean scan produces near-perfect text; a fax of a fax produces fragments. Knowing which documents came out unreadable is as useful as the text itself, because those are the ones that still need a human eye.

 Related: [E-discovery](https://legalnaut.com/glossary/e-discovery), [Transcription](https://legalnaut.com/glossary/transcription)

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