optical character reader

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n. Abbr. OCR

A device used for optical character recognition.

optical character reader

(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) 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 reader and recognition) OCR

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optical character reader n → lettore m ottico di caratteri

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