Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

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Mobile OCR (Smartphone OCR, Camera-based OCR)
Optical character recognition performed using a smartphone or tablet camera rather than a traditional flatbed scanner. Mobile OCR apps like KNFB Reader, Prizmo, and Text Detective enable blind and vis…
Text Spotting (Scene Text Detection)
A computer vision technique that detects and localizes text within images in real time, without actually performing OCR recognition. Text spotting algorithms identify where text appears in a camera fr…