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  2. 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 ...

  3. Image scanner - Wikipedia

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    The last Autokon was a wider format, online only device which utilised both a red and green laser to improve the response to the scanning of colour photographs. In 1977, Raymond Kurzweil , of his start-up company Kurzweil Computer Products, released the Kurzweil Reading Machine, which was the first flatbed scanner with a charge-coupled device ...

  4. Scanner - Wikipedia

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    Scanner (Code Lyoko), a fictional teleportation device; Scanner , a floating enemy in the Half-Life video game series; Scanners, a 1981 science fiction horror film "Scanners" , an episode of the television series Superstore

  5. Timeline of optical character recognition - Wikipedia

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    Similar devices are used to digitise Reader's Digest coupons and postal addresses. Special typefaces are designed to facilitate scanning. [1] [2] [3] 1974–2000 Scanners are used massively to read price tags and passports. [4] Companies such as Caere Corporation, ABBYY and Kurzweil Computer Products Inc, are created. The latter one develops ...

  6. Scan - Wikipedia

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    Elevator algorithm or SCAN, a disk scheduling algorithm; Image scanning, an optical scan of images, printed text, handwriting or an object; Optical character recognition, optical recognition of printed text or printed sheet music; Port scanner, in computer networking; Prefix sum, an operation on lists that is also known as the scan operator

  7. Optical mark recognition - Wikipedia

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    The device then looks at the contrasting reflectivity of the light at certain positions on the form. It will detect the black marks because they reflect less light than the blank areas on the form. Some OMR devices use forms that are printed on transoptic paper. The device can then measure the amount of light that passes through the paper.

  8. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

  9. Handwriting recognition - Wikipedia

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    Signature of country star Tex Williams. Handwriting recognition (HWR), also known as handwritten text recognition (HTR), is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input from sources such as paper documents, photographs, touch-screens and other devices.