Optical Character Recognition

Computer-based optical character recognition (OCR) systems allow blind persons access to a wide variety of printed material. This article describes these systems and how they work and discusses the features that should be considered before one purchases them.

• Publication year

  1972

• Venue

  Optics and Artificial Vision

• Publication date

  1972-05-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1002/j.2637-496X.1972.tb01371.x
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