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2. Image scanner - Wikipedia

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   Alexander Murray and Richard Morse invented and patented the first analog color scanner at Eastman Kodak in 1937. Intended for color separation at printing presses, their machine was an analog drum scanner that imaged a color transparency mounted in the drum, with a light source placed underneath the film, and three photocells with red, green, and blue color filters reading each spot on the ...

3. Optical character recognition - Wikipedia

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   Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and ...

4. Automatic document feeder - Wikipedia

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   Reverse automatic document feeder A scanner with a duplexing automatic document feeder A Konica Minolta photocopier with an automatic document feeder in use. In multifunction or all-in-one printers, fax machines, photocopiers and scanners, an automatic document feeder or ADF is a feature which takes several pages and feeds the paper one page at a time into a scanner or copier, [1] allowing the ...

5. Optical mark recognition - Wikipedia

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   Optical mark recognition (OMR) is the scanning of paper to detect the presence or absence of a mark in a predetermined position. [4] Optical mark recognition has evolved from several other technologies. In the early 19th century and 20th century patents were given for machines that would aid the blind. [2]

6. IBM optical mark and character readers - Wikipedia

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   The IBM 1287 is an online reader that can optically scan printed paper tapes and cut form documents to generate input data for an IBM System/360 or System/370 host. It can read machine printed data as well as handprinted numbers and optical marks (based on installed model and features).

7. Timeline of optical character recognition - Wikipedia

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   Image scanner Paul Nipkow invents the Nipkow disk, an image scanning device that later will be a major breakthrough both for modern television and reading machines. [8] 1900 Invention Russian scientist Tyurin envisions the first OCR machine to serve as an aid to the visually handicapped, but never manages to develop it. [1] 1912 Product Text-to ...