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optical character reader

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noun

  1. Abbreviation (for both reader and recognition): OCR.  a computer peripheral device enabling letters, numbers, or other characters usually printed on paper to be optically scanned and input to a storage device, such as magnetic tape. The device uses the process of optical character recognition

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Dr. Wolfram has also scanned 230,000 pages of paper documents and, when possible, fed them through an optical character reader.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2012

The nightmare of the new automation is the optical character reader, which shoots out 30,000 pieces of mail an hour and shows no mercy.

From Time Magazine Archive

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