| Subject | English | German |
| comp. | optical character recognition | Mustererkennung von Schriften |
| busin., IT | optical character recognition | #optische Zeichenerkennung |
| IT | optical character recognition | maschinelle Zeichenerkennung |
| commun. | optical character recognition | optische Schrifterkennung |
| IT, tech. | optical character recognition | optische Zeichenerkennung |
| comp. | optical character recognition | optische Zeichenerkennung (maschinelle Eingabe von Schrift- bzw. Druckzeichen) |
| gen. | optical character recognition OCR | optische Zeichenerkennung |
| comp., MS | optical character recognition line | Zeile für optische Zeichenerkennung (A line of characters that is read by special character recognition equipment and translated into computer text) |
| industr., construct. | optical character recognition paper | Belegleserpapier |