What is "ocr"

OCR may refer to:

• Offices of Civil Rights, common sub-agency or sub-component name of U.S. federal agencies:
  • State Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of State
  • GSA Office of Civil Rights, General Services Administration
  • ED Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education
  • HHS Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • DOJ Office for Civil Rights, Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
• Official Cash Rate, the interest rate paid by banks in the overnight money market
• Oil Control Ring, Piston ring
• Optical character recognition, conversion of images of text into characters.
  • The OCR-A font, designed to simplify character recognition
  • The similar OCR-B font
• Optimum currency region, a theoretical optimal area where one currency would make most benefit
• Organically moderated and cooled reactor, a type of nuclear reactor
• Ottawa Central Railway a Canadian Shortline owned by CN Rail
• Over consolidation ratio, a consolidation measurement in geotechnical engineering
• OverClocked ReMix, an organization and website dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through re-orchestration and reinterpretation
• Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations, a UK-based exam board
• Oxidizable carbon ratio dating, a method of absolute dating
• Transvaginal oocyte retrieval, a technique used in vitro fertilization
• Obstacle course racing