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OPTICAL TAG READER [1 record]

Record 1 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Hardware
OBS

Page readers may have to handle only a couple of documents per second, but each page may contain up to 2000 characters. And in some applications, for example, the reading of sales tags with a hand-held "wand", motion of the paper is completely avoided.

CONT

OCR : In most applications, the printed or typed characters are sensed optically : this process is called optical character recognition (OCR)

Key term(s)
  • optical tag reader

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel informatique
OBS

Les constructeurs proposent des moyens directs de saisie de l'information, tels que les lecteurs d'étiquettes magnétiques ou optiques. Ces lecteurs peuvent reconnaître des numéros d'identification et de prix ou seulement des codes d'identification.

Spanish

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