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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. HD 101: Discrete IR codes - Engadget

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    Discrete IR codes are their mirror opposites. Anyone that has ever tried to use a programmable remote knows what is so great about discrete IR commands, but just by the name the concept seems foreign.

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Rectilinear scanner - Wikipedia

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    capture emission from radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine. A rectilinear scanner is an imaging device, used to capture emission from radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine. The image is created by physically moving a radiation detector over the surface of a radioactive patient. It has become obsolete in medical imaging, largely replaced ...

  10. Researchers built sonar glasses that track facial movements ...

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    Ruidong Zhang / Cornell University. A Cornell University researcher has developed sonar glasses that “hear” you without speaking. The eyeglass attachment uses tiny microphones and speakers to ...

  11. Police code - Wikipedia

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    A police code is a brevity code, usually numerical or alphanumerical, used to transmit information between law enforcement over police radio systems in the United States. Examples of police codes include "10 codes" (such as 10-4 for "okay" or "acknowledged"—sometimes written X4 or X-4), signals, incident codes, response codes, or other status ...