OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is technology that converts images of text into machine-readable text, enabling processing of scanned documents and photos.

What is OCR (Optical Character Recognition)?

Not all resumes are text-based PDFs. Candidates sometimes submit scanned documents, photos of paper resumes, or image-based PDFs. OCR converts these images to text before parsing.

Modern OCR achieves high accuracy even on low-quality scans, handwriting, and multiple languages. RecruitAI's resume parser includes built-in OCR for image-based documents.

Key Points

Converts images to text
Enables parsing of scans/photos
High accuracy on quality images
Supports multiple languages
Built into modern parsers

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can you parse a photo of a resume?

Yes, RecruitAI's resume parser includes OCR that can extract text from photos and scanned documents before parsing.

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