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What is the name of the reading device which made use of photosensors and laser technologies to interpret printed, typed or even hand-written data directly from the source documents?

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MICR
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OCR
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Mark-sensing device
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ATM
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None of the above
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The correct option is B OCR

OCR is the name of the reading device which made use of photosensors and laser technologies to interpret printed, typed or even hand-written data directly from the source documents.

Optical character recognition, or OCR, is a method of converting a scanned image into text. ... OCR was actually developed originally to assist sight-impaired individuals gain access to printed information. That same technology has been updated and improved and is now used to "read" computer files.

Optical character recognition is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene-photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text superimposed on an image (for example from a television broadcast).


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