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optical character reader

A photosensitive device used to optically scan and read character data (numbers, letters etc.) and input this data into a storage device. Optical character readers are based off the process of optical character recognition (also abbreviated OCR), and have been found to operate at a read rate of up to 480 characters per second.
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