Glossary of Printing Terms:
OCR

Optical Character Recognition

The system that permits an optical scanner to translate printed text into a form that can be read by the computer.

The file can then be edited using a word processor.

There are two specially designed typefaces used for OCR applications; OCR-A and OCR-B.

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