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OCR is optical character recognition. It's used by scanners or similar devices to translate text in an image to actual text. Touch screen computers can use a similar technology to read hand written input, but I don't think it's the exact same.

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Is optical character reader same as the touch screen computers found in ATM?

No. An OCR is a scanner combined with a recognition program. A touch screen is a monitor combined with a pointing device.


What does OCR stand for in computer?

Optical Character Recognition.


What is the full form of OCR in Computer?

full form of OCR is Optical Code Reader


What is the function of OCR?

The function of OCR, input device is to scan the characters on the page, one by one and then compares them with characters stored in the computer's memory.


Can you edit a scanned document?

Yes, if your scanning software has OCR (Optical character recognition.) OCR lets the computer know there is text in the document and then you can edit that text.


Why is ocr useful?

OCR or Optical Character Recognition is useful to take text that already exists on a page like a book or notes from a class and using a scanner get the image into a computer where the OCR software can then be used to convert the image file often a ".tiff" to an ASCII text file that can be saved and edited in a text editor or note pad software package on the computer.


Is optical character recognition an input device?

Yes


How can handwriting or drawing be produced freehand and entered directly into a computer?

It depends on exactly what you're after. You options are really either a scanner or a graphics tablet.With a scanner you could write or draw freehand onto a sheet of paper and scan it in. This will produce an image file on your computer, e.g. a JPG, GIF, BMP, etc. If you want the computer to "understand" your hand writing you would use your scanner's OCR software.OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition and is where the computer guesses what the letters, numbers and characters are and tries to translate them into characters on your computer. Although OCR software these days is pretty respectable it still depends a lot on your handwriting.A graphics tablet: imagine a mouse mat which you draw on with a magic pen. The computer reads your hand strokes with the pen across the mat and that is exactly what appears on the screen. Again, OCR software could be applied in this instance too.


What is an OCR Reader?

A device that reads OCR.


Ocr is that device?

OCR is a type of technology that enables computer software, and by extension, computers to recognize text on images, as if we would read words on signs, billboards and pictures. It stands for Optical Character Recognition.


What is the use of optical character reader?

An Optical Character Reader (OCR) is a combination of software and a hardware document scanner. A document (such as a letter) is scanned with a flat-bed or roller scanner and read into a computer. That computer image (or picture) of the letter is then interpreted by the OCR software. The software generates a text file of the information that is in the image. That text file can be viewed, edited, printed, Etc. just as though it was created in a word processor. OCR software has come a long way. Early OCR programs were only marginally accurate. Today, they are much, much better. An OCR program can save lots of time re-entering text into a computer document file from a keyboard. However, you will still have to VERY CAREFULLY proof-read your document to catch the errors.


What does ocr?

ocr a used in many different things