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+from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
+
+from ..classes import OCRBackendBase
+
+
+class NoOpOCR(OCRBackendBase):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super(NoOpOCR, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def execute(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Don't do anything"""