The OCR Dream

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1993 English Publisher:EmeraldJournal:Sensor Review, volume 13, pages 10-11 (issn: 0260-2288,

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Authors: David Nangle;

doi: 10.1108/eb007890

The OCR Dream

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For many years the philosophy of machines reading data from paper into computers, known as Optical Character Recognition or OCR, has been regarded by the unenlightened as a dream which will be wonderful when it happens. OCR has, unfortunately, been an insufficiently publicized reality for 25 years.

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