The acronym OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. It refers to the technology that converts different types of documents, including scanned paper documents, PDFs, or images captured by a digital camera, into editable and searchable data. OCR systems process these documents, recognizing the characters and digits present and transforming them into machine-readable text. This technology enhances efficiency in data entry, archiving, and document management, making large volumes of information accessible and manageable in digital formats.