A scan is a page taken by a camera or a scanner.
At first it is a picture.
The letters are visible, but a program may not know them as writing.
Text recognition tries to pull writing out of that picture.
In a text document you can select the letters with a finger or a mouse.
If you cannot, the page is still a picture.
Recognition can misread names and numbers, so the result needs a look.
A scan and a text document represent two different ways digital pages store information. A scan is simply a page taken by a camera or a scanner, starting entirely as a picture where letters are visible to the human eye, but a program may not yet recognize them as actual written text.
Users often encounter these formats when digitizing physical paperwork. Text recognition tries to pull writing out of that picture so you can work with it. Because recognition can occasionally misread specific names and numbers, the resulting output always needs a careful look to ensure complete accuracy.
A scan starts as a picture taken by a camera or a scanner, meaning the letters are visible as an image rather than code.
If you can select the letters directly with a finger or a mouse, the document contains real text.
Recognition programs can sometimes misread names and numbers, so the final result always needs a careful look.
