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optical character recognition

Gordon B. Davis


Subject Business and Management » International Management, MIS (Management Information Systems)


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Optical character recognition (OCR) is a technology for reading and interpreting machine‐printed or handwritten symbols. OCR can also include technology to read optical marks and magnetic ink characters. Examples of optical marks are the universal product code ( see bar code ) and the US Postal Service bar code for zip codes. Magnetic ink characters are used on bank checks and similar bank documents. OCR systems are used to read machine‐printed fonts. Standard stylized fonts are available for optical character applications (OCR‐A and OCR‐B), but most machine‐printed fonts are readable. In a typical business application, a customer returns a part of the billing form containing customer information, such as account number and amount due, printed on it. The turnaround document is read with an OCR reader. Hand‐printed characters can also be read. In order to achieve reasonable accuracy, the characters must be carefully printed. To aid users in entering data, forms typically provide a marked space for each character. ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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