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What is the OCR feature in WPS Office

March 28, 2022
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Do you know what is the OCR feature in WPS Office? OCR is an abbreviation of optical character recognition, which can extract the text from pictures and convert it to Word or Excel in WPS Office. It is functional to recognize the text of a picture when there are many words in the picture.

Three major usage scenarios for the OCR function.

The following are some scenarios in that WPS Office is using AI algorithms to recognize the character with the OCR feature.

Scenario 1: Automatic recognition of image types.

Kingsoft WPS uses the TensorFlow Lite to realize the OCR model that can automatically recognize the image type and provide the corresponding filter and OCR output format.

Scenario 2: Scan OCR.

Using TensorFlow deployment model, the document rotation correction, text line detection and other operations can be realized, saving a lot of document editing time.

Scenario3: Natural scene OCR.

Using TensorFlow Lite to run natural scene OCR on mobile phone, so that it can accurately locate text from complex scenes in a short time and get ideal recognition results;

Kingsoft WPS has also processed and integrated a variety of machine learning algorithms, optimized and improved functions such as a document to picture and content detection from different levels, and solved the historical problem that it will be garble when the picture convert to the document.

Do you know how to use the OCR feature after learning so much about the OCR feature in WPS Office

In the WPS OCR, we can directly drag the picture into this box or click the Add pictures button to start to recognize, or click the Screen Capture button to capture a picture.

Then, according to your requirements, select the conversion mode, such as Extract text only, Convert to Word or Convert to Excel.

Is it practical to use the OCR function in WPS Office to extract text from pictures? The answer definitely is yes. If you are interested in more details about the OCR feature, feel free to refer to WPS Academy!

Click to visit WPS OfficialAcademy for more free tutorials:

How to use OCR in PDF

WPS Office consists of four components: WPS Writer, WPS Spreadsheet, WPS Presentation, and PDF Editor. It is barrier-free and compatible with Microsoft Office documents: Not only can you directly open and save Microsoft Office documents, but also can edit the documents saved by WPS. In addition to compatibility in document format, WPS is deeply compatible with Microsoft Office in terms of usage habits and interface functions, which reduces the learning cost of users and can fully meet the daily Office needs of individual users.

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