Optical character reader

Japanese: optical character reader(英語表記)opticalcharacterreader
Optical character reader

…There are devices that read characters optically and devices that use magnetic ink. The former, optical character readers, are also called OCR, and are devices that optically read printed or handwritten characters, recognize character patterns, and input them as character codes. Early devices only handled a limited number of printed characters, such as numbers and letters, and used special character shapes that were suitable for mechanical reading. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "optical character reader" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…光学的に文字を読み取るものと,磁気インキを利用したものがある。前者の光学的文字読取装置は,optical character readerを略してOCRともいい,印刷された文字あるいは手書きの文字を光学的に読み取り,文字パターンを認識して文字コードとして入力する装置である。初期の装置は印刷された文字で限られた字種,例えば数字とアルファベットを対象とし,文字の形も機械的な読取りに適した特殊な形のものが使用された。…

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