Optical Character Recognition

"OCR" routines match images of text to real characters. These characters can be used to supply text to a field in the same way that a database supplies a value to a field.

These Plugins are not supplied as standard with EscapeE but may be purchased from RedTitan.

Rocr Plugin for defining your own database(s) of recognizable characters.
Tesseract Plugin: a general purpose OCR tool that uses public-domain software. (Supersedes OCR Plugin.)
OCRust Plugin enables the optical character recognition of dot matrix printer characters.

Optical recognition is used to read some barcodes too: see Barcode readers section.