character recognition

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noun

computing a magnetic or optical process used to detect the shape of individual characters printed or written on paper

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Words nearby character recognition

characteristic x-ray, characterization, characterize, character level, character piece, character recognition, characters, character set, character sketch, character study, character type

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How to use character recognition in a sentence

Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
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I still do find it a tremendously useful device to invent a character and have the character sing the song.
Belle & Sebastian Aren’t So Shy Anymore|James Joiner|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
You were basically the guy to do every dictator or crazy character, from Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad to Bin Laden.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Our fans have seen all our sketches, so we wanted to give them something a little deeper about each character.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Forget those silly “games played with the ball”; they are far “too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.”
Forget the Resolutions; Try a Few Declarations|Kevin Bleyer|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I, therefore, deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud man ought to conceal his vanity.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
Recognition of the pneumococcus depends upon its morphology, the fact that it is Gram-staining, and the presence of a capsule.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
It is the development of character, the triumph of intellectuality and spirituality I have striven to express.'
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
She never realized that the reserve of her own character had much, perhaps everything, to do with this.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Messa urges the king to send a new governor, and gives his advice as to the character of him who should be sent.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various