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"form": "OCRing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "OCRed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "OCRed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "OCR (third-person singular simple present OCRs, present participle OCRing, simple past and past participle OCRed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
97,
101
]
],
"text": "Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, OCRs, and stores in its digital database.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To perform optical character recognition upon."
],
"links": [
[
"perform",
"perform"
],
[
"optical character recognition",
"optical character recognition"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To perform optical character recognition upon."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "OCR"
}
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