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OCR or Optical Character Recognition is useful to take text that already exists on a page like a book or notes from a class and using a scanner get the image into a computer where the OCR software can then be used to convert the image file often a ".tiff" to an ASCII text file that can be saved and edited in a text editor or note pad software package on the computer.

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