Meanings
- USabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Office for Civil Rights.
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“As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.
2024 November 14, Lauren del Valle, “After suicide of nonbinary teen, DOE finds multiple Title IX violations at Oklahoma school district”, in CNN
plural OCRs
- abbreviationinitialismuncountablecomputingInitialism of optical character recognition (the technology or principle).
- abbreviationcountableinitialismcomputingInitialism of optical character reader (the scanning device).
- abbreviationinitialismuncountablehobbiesInitialism of obstacle course racing.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismhobbiesInitialism of obstacle course race.
- abbreviationinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of one coat render.
present singular third person OCRs · participle present OCRing · participle past OCRed · past OCRed
- transitiveTo perform optical character recognition upon.
Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, OCRs, and stores in its digital database.
Synonyms & antonyms
Translations
German OZE (Optische Zeichenerkennung)
- OZE (Optische Zeichenerkennung)optical character recognition
Polish OCR
- OCRoptical character recognition
Swedish optisk teckenigenkänning, maskinläsning
- optisk teckenigenkänningoptical character recognition
- maskinläsningoptical character recognition
Turkish OKT
- OKToptical character recognition
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Cite this entry
OCR. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/OCR
“OCR.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/OCR. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “OCR,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/OCR.
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