Reconnaissance optique de caractèresvignette|Vidéo montrant un processus de reconnaissance optique de caractères effectué en direct grâce à un scanner portable. La reconnaissance optique de caractères (ROC, ou OCR pour l'anglais optical character recognition), ou océrisation, désigne les procédés informatiques pour la traduction d'images de textes imprimés ou dactylographiés en fichiers de texte. Un ordinateur réclame pour l'exécution de cette tâche un logiciel d'OCR.
Object code optimizerAn object code optimizer, sometimes also known as a post pass optimizer or, for small sections of code, peephole optimizer, forms part of a software compiler. It takes the output from the source language compile step - the object code or - and tries to replace identifiable sections of the code with replacement code that is more algorithmically efficient (usually improved speed). The earliest "COBOL Optimizer" was developed by Capex Corporation in the mid 1970s for COBOL.
Global optimizationGlobal optimization is a branch of applied mathematics and numerical analysis that attempts to find the global minima or maxima of a function or a set of functions on a given set. It is usually described as a minimization problem because the maximization of the real-valued function is equivalent to the minimization of the function . Given a possibly nonlinear and non-convex continuous function with the global minima and the set of all global minimizers in , the standard minimization problem can be given as that is, finding and a global minimizer in ; where is a (not necessarily convex) compact set defined by inequalities .
