OCR Confidence
Score indicating OCR engine certainty in recognized text.
Definition
Lower confidence can signal noise, skew, or poor scan quality.
Why it matters
Useful for QA thresholds in extraction workflows.
Related PDFHQ workflows
Use this concept when optimizing, converting, validating, or troubleshooting document workflows.
Related Knowledge
OCR
Optical Character Recognition that turns scan images into machine-readable text.
Confidence Threshold
Cutoff score used to accept or reject OCR-detected characters/words.
Thresholding
Pixel-level decision method used in binarization to separate foreground text from background.