Optical character reader OCR or scanning software

Example software & tools

Ranked by how many occupations list each product. Each number is an occupation count — a job is counted once per product — so the product rows overlap and do not sum to the category total.

Occupations that use Optical character reader OCR or scanning software

• Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
• Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary
• Architectural and Civil Drafters
• Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary
• Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary
• Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
• Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
• Bill and Account Collectors
• Billing and Posting Clerks
• Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary
• Business Teachers, Postsecondary
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School
• Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
• Communications Teachers, Postsecondary
• Compliance Officers
• Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary
• Customs Brokers
• Desktop Publishers
• Document Management Specialists
• Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
• Economics Teachers, Postsecondary
• Education Teachers, Postsecondary
• Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary
• English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
• Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary
• Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
• File Clerks
• Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
• Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary
• Geography Teachers, Postsecondary
• Graphic Designers
• Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
• Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
• Historians
• History Teachers, Postsecondary
• Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping
• Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
• Law Teachers, Postsecondary

Showing 40 of 66 occupations.

How AI is used by roles that use Optical character reader OCR or scanning software

A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Optical character reader OCR or scanning software and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles, weighted by how much observed AI activity each one has. 80.3% of the 66 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (53 roles).

Across those roles, 64.4% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 32.4% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.62 / 5.

Roles behind this signal

The roles using this category that have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Roles list software categories in O*NET; this does not mean AI is used inside Optical character reader OCR or scanning software, only that people in those roles use AI. Some conversations are left unclassified, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Optical character reader OCR or scanning software matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Optical character reader OCR or scanning software (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5, or report using the tool category). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 4.0% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Optical character reader OCR or scanning software (measured across 65 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Industries where it is most concentrated

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Census NAICS 2022 U.S. Census Bureau
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic
• AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans academic

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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