Optical character recognition

Quality:

Optical character recognition - computer recognition of visual text. Article "Optical character recognition" in English Wikipedia has 58.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 48 references and 17 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Optical character recognition" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Optical character recognition", its content was written by 598 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2267 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 990 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4468 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #770 in April 2002
• Global: #1057 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8175 in June 2008
• Global: #9201 in June 2008

There are 46 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Optical character recognition		58.856
2	German (de) Texterkennung		45.2329
3	Arabic (ar) تعرف المحارف البصري		34.3191
4	Catalan (ca) Reconeixement òptic de caràcters		33.6234
5	Malay (ms) Pengecaman aksara optik		31.8767
6	Indonesian (id) Pengenalan karakter optis		29.8429
7	Chinese (zh) 光学字符识别		29.2685
8	Japanese (ja) 光学文字認識		28.4757
9	Italian (it) Riconoscimento ottico dei caratteri		24.0097
10	Bulgarian (bg) Оптично разпознаване на символи		23.2537

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Optical character recognition		7 933 456
2	German (de) Texterkennung		1 398 802
3	Spanish (es) Reconocimiento óptico de caracteres		981 875
4	Japanese (ja) 光学文字認識		698 763
5	Russian (ru) Оптическое распознавание символов		656 353
6	French (fr) Reconnaissance optique de caractères		577 691
7	Polish (pl) Optyczne rozpoznawanie znaków		459 821
8	Italian (it) Riconoscimento ottico dei caratteri		435 478
9	Chinese (zh) 光学字符识别		312 388
10	Portuguese (pt) Reconhecimento ótico de caracteres		256 099

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Optical character recognition		20 912
2	German (de) Texterkennung		1 849
3	French (fr) Reconnaissance optique de caractères		1 706
4	Russian (ru) Оптическое распознавание символов		1 217
5	Chinese (zh) 光学字符识别		1 213
6	Spanish (es) Reconocimiento óptico de caracteres		1 055
7	Japanese (ja) 光学文字認識		980
8	Italian (it) Riconoscimento ottico dei caratteri		547
9	Polish (pl) Optyczne rozpoznawanie znaków		466
10	Greek (el) Οπτική Αναγνώριση Χαρακτήρων		447

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Optical character recognition		598
2	German (de) Texterkennung		250
3	French (fr) Reconnaissance optique de caractères		135
4	Italian (it) Riconoscimento ottico dei caratteri		107
5	Russian (ru) Оптическое распознавание символов		97
6	Dutch (nl) Optical character recognition		91
7	Spanish (es) Reconocimiento óptico de caracteres		87
8	Hebrew (he) זיהוי תווים אופטי		86
9	Polish (pl) Optyczne rozpoznawanie znaków		71
10	Chinese (zh) 光学字符识别		51

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Reconnaissance optique de caractères		2
2	Ukrainian (uk) Оптичне розпізнавання символів		2
3	English (en) Optical character recognition		1
4	Hindi (hi) ओसीआर		1
5	Indonesian (id) Pengenalan karakter optis		1
6	Chinese (zh) 光学字符识别		1
7	Arabic (ar) تعرف المحارف البصري		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Simvolların optik tanınması		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Оптично разпознаване на символи		0
10	Catalan (ca) Reconeixement òptic de caràcters		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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