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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. I can't comment on the specific program but that's what OCR means.

What it does mainly is if you scan a document on the scanner and run it through OCR, it can put it in a text document or into a Word document so that it can be edited. You get a picture when you scan a document and it is not easy to edit, and the file is large. You only need this for authenticity purposes sometimes. Some programs can edit the words in a picture but it is an awkward, clumsy process. In a text editor it is easy, and then you just print it if need be.

And if you were poor sighted for example, Readplease will read a text document and speak it to you in a computer voice, but I don't think it can do it with a picture yet, which is what you get when you scan something.

If you ever installed scanner software that is probably where it came from and is most likely innocuous and harmless. I wouldn'r remove it so fast. There are alot worse things out there (or in there ? )

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