[Unicode block] Optical Character Recognition is a Unicode block containing signal characters for OCR standards. ==Character table== ==Subheadings== The Optical Character Recognition block has three informal subheadings (groupings) within its character collection: OCR-A, MICR, and OCR. ===OCR-A=== The OCR-A subheading contains six character...
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Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic conversion of scanned or photographed images of typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded/computer-readable text. It is widely used as a form of data entry from some sort of original paper data source, whether passport documents, invoices, bank statem...
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(from the article `computerized typesetting`) An optical character recognition (OCR) system `reads` typed copy and records the characters on a machine-readable tape. It converts the tape into ... ...words of text. The stored material therefore cannot be linguistically manipulated by text processing and other software technique...
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See OCR
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In computing, a technique for inputting text to a computer by means of a document reader. First, a scanner produces a digital image of the text; then character-recognition software makes use of stored knowledge about the shapes of individual characters to convert the digital image to a set of internal codes that can be stored and processed ...
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the process or technology of reading data in printed form by a devicethat scans and identifies characters. Abbr.: OCR
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(OCR) Technology system that scans and converts printed materials into electronic text.
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