Term sometimes given to Optical or Internal Character Recognition where the scanned and recognized information is further interpreted to take advantage of contextual information, that is, words, phrases, and so forth, rather than simply treating the text as a string of independent characters. Intelligent Character Recognition, for example, may be used by sophisticated computer programs to construct concordances automatically, or to create highly- sophisticated indexes. At this stage, intelligent character recognition is a field of research, rather than production, interest. See also: Internal Character Recognition, OCR Last Reviewed: 2003-03-01