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  2. Optical mark recognition - Wikipedia

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    The first mark sense scanner was the IBM 805 Test Scoring Machine; this read marks by sensing the electrical conductivity of graphite pencil lead using pairs of wire brushes that scanned the page. In the 1930s, Richard Warren at IBM experimented with optical mark sense systems for test scoring, as documented in US Patents 2,150,256 (filed in ...

  3. Magnetic ink character recognition - Wikipedia

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    Magnetic ink character recognition code, known in short as MICR code, is a character recognition technology used mainly by the banking industry to streamline the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents. MICR encoding, called the MICR line, is at the bottom of cheques and other vouchers and typically includes the document-type ...

  4. Optical character recognition - Wikipedia

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    Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and ...

  5. How gadgets could unlock the potential of lucid dreaming

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    Awoken (Android) and Lucidity (iOS) for example operate more like training tools that leverage some of the tech in your phone. Every morning you can add to your dream journal and throughout the ...

  6. Microsoft's Seeing AI app can scan the boxes of Centrum ...

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    Users who are blind, have trouble reading or have low literacy can use the app to scan more than 1,500 Haleon products like Emergen-C, Sensodyne, Centrum and more, and their device will read out ...

  7. A new app can detect Bluetooth credit card skimmers on gas ...

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    So far, the Bluetana app has detected 64 Bluetooth-based skimmers that had evaded other, existing scans, according to the researchers, and cuts down detection time to just a few seconds rather ...

  8. Adobe’s new AI automates PDF accessibility tags - Engadget

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    Adobe’s PDF Accessibility Auto-Tag API automates the tagging process. The company says its Sensei-powered software will indicate the correct reading order for assistive technology, saving ...

  9. Automatic identification and data capture - Wikipedia

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    Automatic identification and data capture. Automatic identification and data capture ( AIDC) refers to the methods of automatically identifying objects, collecting data about them, and entering them directly into computer systems, without human involvement. Technologies typically considered as part of AIDC include QR codes, [1] bar codes, radio ...

  10. Contact image sensor - Wikipedia

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    Contact image sensors ( CIS) are image sensors used in flatbed scanners almost in direct contact with the object to be scanned. Charge-coupled devices (CCDs), the other kind of sensor often used in scanners, use mirrors to bounce light to a stationary sensor. Scanners using CISs are much smaller than ones that use CCDs, use typically a tenth as ...

  11. I wish Ray-Ban's Stories smart glasses were made by anyone ...

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    The app also lets you delete transcripts of voice commands it’s captured, but both are unfortunately enabled by default. If any of that makes you uneasy, then you’ll likely want to steer clear ...