optical character reader

基本解釋

By eliminating the need to retype text from print media onto the screen, Optical Character Reader saves users a great deal of time.
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In a room down the corridor, several people are hard at work scanning barcodes from stacks of documents with an optical character reader.
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optical l character reader 光符閱讀機;光學(xué)符號閱讀器
magnetic optical -character reader [計]磁光字符閱讀器;磁光字符閱讀機
Advanced Optical Character Reader 高等感光文字閱讀機;先進光學(xué)字符閱讀機;高級光符閱讀器;先進光學(xué)符號閱讀機
OCR Optical Character Reader 光學(xué)字符閱讀器
scan optical character reader 視頻掃瞄感光字符閱讀器

a computer peripheral device enabling letters, numbers, or other characters usually printed on paper to be optically scanned and input to a storage device, such as magnetic tape. The device uses the process of optical character recognition (Abbreviation (for both and ) OCR)