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 光符閲讀機(jī);光學(xué)符號閲讀器
magnetic optical -character reader [計(jì)]磁光字符閲讀器;磁光字符閲讀機(jī)
Advanced Optical Character Reader 高等感光文字閲讀機(jī);先進(jìn)光學(xué)字符閲讀機(jī);高級光符閲讀器;先進(jìn)光學(xué)符號閲讀機(jī)
OCR Optical Character Reader 光學(xué)字符閲讀器
scan optical character reader 眡頻掃瞄感光字符閲讀器

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)