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Which method is of reading the characters & providing input to a computer.

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Optical character reader
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Punched paper tape
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Card punch
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Magnetic ink character
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None of the above
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Solution

The correct option is A Optical character reader

Optical character reader method is a reading the characters & providing input to a computer.

OCR (optical character recognition) is the recognition of printed or written text characters by a computer. This involves photoscanning of the text character-by-character, analysis of the scanned-in image, and then translation of the character image into character codes, such as ASCII, commonly used in data processing.

Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is a technology that enables you to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or images captured by a digital camera into editable and searchable data.


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