Optical character recognition

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Optical character recognition

Quality:

Optical character recognition - computer recognition of visual text. Article “Optical character recognition” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Optical character recognition”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2295 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4925 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #657 in July 2021
  • Global: #1056 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #6137 in July 2010
  • Global: #9210 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, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

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

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Optical character recognition
66.509
2Korean (ko)
광학 문자 인식
52.0598
3German (de)
Texterkennung
44.8012
4Japanese (ja)
光学文字認識
40.7841
5Catalan (ca)
Reconeixement òptic de caràcters
33.6475
6Arabic (ar)
تعرف المحارف البصري
33.3082
7Indonesian (id)
Pengenalan karakter optis
33.1358
8Malay (ms)
Pengecaman aksara optik
32.6008
9Chinese (zh)
光学字符识别
29.1637
10Czech (cs)
Optické rozpoznávání znaků
28.8182
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Optical character recognition" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Optical character recognition
8 138 379
2German (de)
Texterkennung
1 421 407
3Spanish (es)
Reconocimiento óptico de caracteres
993 900
4Japanese (ja)
光学文字認識
712 808
5Russian (ru)
Оптическое распознавание символов
705 895
6French (fr)
Reconnaissance optique de caractères
598 843
7Polish (pl)
Optyczne rozpoznawanie znaków
465 414
8Italian (it)
Riconoscimento ottico dei caratteri
441 988
9Chinese (zh)
光学字符识别
323 715
10Portuguese (pt)
Reconhecimento ótico de caracteres
259 884
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Optical character recognition" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Optical character recognition
14 225
2French (fr)
Reconnaissance optique de caractères
1 653
3German (de)
Texterkennung
1 630
4Japanese (ja)
光学文字認識
1 133
5Chinese (zh)
光学字符识别
923
6Russian (ru)
Оптическое распознавание символов
775
7Spanish (es)
Reconocimiento óptico de caracteres
584
8Italian (it)
Riconoscimento ottico dei caratteri
448
9Polish (pl)
Optyczne rozpoznawanie znaków
408
10Dutch (nl)
Optical character recognition
373
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Optical character recognition" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Optical character recognition
618
2German (de)
Texterkennung
252
3French (fr)
Reconnaissance optique de caractères
137
4Italian (it)
Riconoscimento ottico dei caratteri
108
5Russian (ru)
Оптическое распознавание символов
99
6Dutch (nl)
Optical character recognition
91
7Spanish (es)
Reconocimiento óptico de caracteres
87
8Hebrew (he)
זיהוי תווים אופטי
86
9Polish (pl)
Optyczne rozpoznawanie znaków
71
10Chinese (zh)
光学字符识别
52
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Optical character recognition" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Optical character recognition
6
2Japanese (ja)
光学文字認識
2
3Arabic (ar)
تعرف المحارف البصري
1
4Greek (el)
Οπτική Αναγνώριση Χαρακτήρων
1
5Portuguese (pt)
Reconhecimento ótico de caracteres
1
6Russian (ru)
Оптическое распознавание символов
1
7Swedish (sv)
Maskinläsning
1
8Azerbaijani (az)
Simvolların optik tanınması
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Оптично разпознаване на символи
0
10Catalan (ca)
Reconeixement òptic de caràcters
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Optical character recognition" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Optical character recognition
1 070
2Russian (ru)
Оптическое распознавание символов
333
3Ukrainian (uk)
Оптичне розпізнавання символів
326
4Japanese (ja)
光学文字認識
271
5German (de)
Texterkennung
258
6Arabic (ar)
تعرف المحارف البصري
248
7Portuguese (pt)
Reconhecimento ótico de caracteres
209
8Hebrew (he)
זיהוי תווים אופטי
195
9French (fr)
Reconnaissance optique de caractères
182
10Vietnamese (vi)
Nhận dạng ký tự quang học
150
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Scores

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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تعرف المحارف البصري
azAzerbaijani
Simvolların optik tanınması
bgBulgarian
Оптично разпознаване на символи
caCatalan
Reconeixement òptic de caràcters
csCzech
Optické rozpoznávání znaků
daDanish
Optical character recognition
deGerman
Texterkennung
elGreek
Οπτική Αναγνώριση Χαρακτήρων
enEnglish
Optical character recognition
eoEsperanto
Optika signorekono
esSpanish
Reconocimiento óptico de caracteres
etEstonian
Optiline märgituvastus
euBasque
Karaktereen ezagutze optiko
faPersian
نویسه‌خوان نوری
fiFinnish
Tekstintunnistus
frFrench
Reconnaissance optique de caractères
glGalician
Recoñecemento óptico de caracteres
heHebrew
זיהוי תווים אופטי
hiHindi
ओसीआर
hrCroatian
Optičko prepoznavanje znakova
huHungarian
Optikai karakterfelismerés
hyArmenian
Գրանշանների օպտիկական ճանաչում
idIndonesian
Pengenalan karakter optis
itItalian
Riconoscimento ottico dei caratteri
jaJapanese
光学文字認識
kkKazakh
Символдарды оптикалық танып білу
koKorean
광학 문자 인식
msMalay
Pengecaman aksara optik
nlDutch
Optical character recognition
noNorwegian
Optisk tegngjenkjenning
plPolish
Optyczne rozpoznawanie znaków
ptPortuguese
Reconhecimento ótico de caracteres
roRomanian
Recunoașterea optică a caracterelor
ruRussian
Оптическое распознавание символов
shSerbo-Croatian
Optičko prepoznavanje znakova
simpleSimple English
Optical character recognition
skSlovak
Optické rozoznávanie znakov
srSerbian
Optičko prepoznavanje znakova
svSwedish
Maskinläsning
taTamil
ஒளி எழுத்துணரி
thThai
การรู้จำอักขระด้วยแสง
trTurkish
Optik karakter tanıma
ukUkrainian
Оптичне розпізнавання символів
urUrdu
بصریاتی حرف شناسی
viVietnamese
Nhận dạng ký tự quang học
zhChinese
光学字符识别

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#6137
07.2010
Global:
#9210
06.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#657
07.2021
Global:
#1056
04.2002

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Optical character recognition from Wikipedia articles about OCR, ReCAPTCHA, Yann Le Cun, Raymond Kurzweil and Tesseract. Whereas reading the article about Optical character recognition people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Tesseract, Comparison of optical character recognition software, Timeline of optical character recognition, MICR and Handwriting recognition.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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