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OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION SOFTWARE [2 records]

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Record 1 2016-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Peripheral Equipment
DEF

A small hand-held scanner allowing its user to scan [only a single line of text at once].

OBS

A pen scanner [is] easy to carry around and can be used with a laptop computer and OCR [optical character recognition] software to read text from documents into a word processing application.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Périphériques (Informatique)
DEF

Petit scanneur à main ayant la forme d'un stylo [permettant à l'utilisateur de scanner seulement une ligne de texte à la fois].

Key term(s)
  • stylo scanner

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Traffic
  • Transport Tolls and Rates
  • Security
  • Customs and Excise
CONT

From electronic toll collection and traffic activity monitoring to border security, licence plate recognition technology is used widely all over the globe... LPR is a mass surveillance method that uses optical character recognition software on images to read the licence plates on vehicles.

OBS

license plate recognition; LPR: term and abbreviation proposed by the World Road Association.

Key term(s)
  • automatic license plate recognition
  • automatic numberplate recognition

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circulation routière
  • Péage
  • Sécurité
  • Douanes et accise
OBS

reconnaissance de plaque minéralogique : terme proposé par l'Association mondiale de la route.

Key term(s)
  • reconnaissance de plaque d'immatriculation
  • reconnaissance de plaques minéralogiques

Spanish

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