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Optical character recognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1320 words)
OCR began as a field of research in artificial intelligence and machine vision.
The first use of OCR in Europe was by the British Post Office.
OCR systems read the name and address of the addressee at the first mechanized sorting center, and print a routing bar code on the envelope based on the postal code.
What is OCR? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: optical character recognition (220 words)
OCR (optical character recognition) is the recognition of printed or written text characters by a computer.
In OCR processing, the scanned-in image or bitmap is analyzed for light and dark areas in order to identify each alphabetic letter or numeric digit.
OCR is being used by libraries to digitize and preserve their holdings.
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