IS AN OCR A INPUT OR OUTPUT DEVICE?

Answer 1

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition, and it's software to recognize the actual words in a scanned image. A scanner only copies the image it sees, it can't understand what the characters mean in a text image and that's what OCR s'ware is for. You teach the s'ware what each character represents (if it can't recognize it right away), and then it can be edited in a text editor program, like Notepad or Word. Now the answer to your Q is in the reply, both input and output.

Answer 2

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition, and it's software to recognize the actual words in a scanned image. A scanner only copies the image it sees, it can't understand what the characters mean in a text image and that's what OCR s'ware is for. You teach the s'ware what each character represents (if it can't recognize it right away), and then it can be edited in a text editor program, like Notepad or Word. Now the answer to your Q is in the reply, both input and output.

Answer 3

"OCR" stands for "Optical Character Recognition. It is NOT strictly an input interface. It is a process applied to an image (captured by an input interface) after the computer has received it.

However, it is frequently done as part of the capture process.

Answer 4

OCR is an input device. Its purpose is to scan written or typed text - and display it on a computer screen.

Answer 5

Optical Character Recognition is a system that allows a computer to read human readable text. Reading is an input process, whether for computers or humans.

Answer 6

It is both input and output device.

Answer 7

output