Bickel indicated an optical character reader on the wall directly in front of him.
The phone includes an optical character reader; pass a business card across it and text information is scanned into the phone.
Another growing use for scanners is as optical character readers.
Next, optical character readers scanned each receipt, recording the invoice and account numbers.
An optical character reader equipped with this technology, which involves pattern recognition, could read the handwritten information on each slip as well.
Digital image is scanned for account and invoice numbers by optical character reader (99% accuracy).
He linked through to the Form Control central computer and added an optical character reader as a peripheral.
Such a machine might have an optical character reader and might put on a barcode.
This actually makes it more difficult for simplified character readers to distinguish the characters, since they now rely heavily on memorization.
Uncomplaining machines called optical character readers are coming along to displace the typists.
