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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

optical character recognition (OCR)

Machine recognition of printed characters, e.g. the machine-readable section of a passport or the reading of typed post codes when mail is automatically sorted.

Related terms
bar codescannermagnetic ink character recognition (MICR)machine readablespeech recognition software (SRS)voice recognition
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