Glossary

An API is constructed of rules and protocols allowing software applications to communicate and interact with each other.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a method of extracting electronic text from images.

A Quick Response (QR) code encodes information within a pattern of black and white squares. Use smartphones or QR code readers to decode QR codes.

REST provides a framework for building web services that are scalable, stateless, and interoperable. Developers use RESTful systems for creating APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to communicate and exchange application data over the internet.