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# OCR Specialist

> The PhotoRobot Academy specialty track for compliance-grade OCR.

Category: Training and certification.

OCR Specialist is a specialty track for integrators working with text-heavy products: retail planograms, pharmaceutical labeling, GS1 image standards and regulatory documentation. It is one of the five specialty tracks of the Academy.

## How PhotoRobot uses it

The track has 4 modules: module I04 plus three specialty modules on domain-specific patterns, quality thresholds with manual review, and compliance and audit trail. It requires the [Integrator Essentials](https://www.photorobot.com/glossary/integrator-essentials) certificate.

## See on photorobot.com

- [OCR Specialist](https://www.photorobot.com/academy/tracks/ocr-specialist)
- [OCR manual](https://www.photorobot.com/manuals/optical-character-recognition)

## Related terms

- [OCR (optical character recognition)](https://www.photorobot.com/glossary/ocr): Technology that converts text in an image into machine-readable text.
- [Planogram](https://www.photorobot.com/glossary/planogram): A diagram of how products are placed on retail shelves; planogram images show the product face-on for it.
- [GS1 image standards](https://www.photorobot.com/glossary/gs1-image-standards): GS1 guidelines for how product images are captured, named and exchanged in retail supply chains.
- [extractedOcrData](https://www.photorobot.com/glossary/extracted-ocr-data): The field in data.json that holds the OCR text recognized on each frame.

## Where this term appears on photorobot.com

Mentioned on 2 pages. Most relevant:

- [PhotoRobot FAQs](https://www.photorobot.com/faq): …Certification) and five specialty tracks that stack on a foundational certificate (OCR Specialist, 3D Modeling Specialist, PINK Specialist, Virtual Catwalk Specialist and Carpet Photography…
- [Rapidly Onboard Studio Teams with PhotoRobot Academy](https://www.photorobot.com/blog/introducing-photorobot-academy): *4 modules* OCR Specialist Retail planogram, pharma labeling and GS1 compliance for OCR-heavy deployments.