Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
(OCR) Device:
In this case a scanner is equipped with character recognition software which converts the images of characters to equivalent ASCII codes. The scanner first creates the image of the document, and the software(OCR software) translates the array of grid points in to ASCII text, which the computer can interpret as letters, numbers or special characters. OCR software is designed to recognize texts, which are written in some standard type of fonts called as OCR fonts. Two such standard fonts are OCR-A (American standard) and OCR-B(European standard) fonts, which are given here.
Any document written in these fonts can only be recognized and processed by OCR technique. The CD-ROMs containing these fonts are either to be purchased or down loaded to a computer for creating documents, readable by an OCR scanner.
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