DIRECT DATA ENTRY DEVICES

1. Magnetic Ink Character Reader(MICR)

Description : Magnetic ink character recognition readers are the primary tool used
for check sorting, processing and validation
Uses : It is used to verify the legitimacy or originality of checks and other
paper documents.
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2. Optical Character Reader(OCR)

Description : Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process that converts an
image of text into a machine-readable text format
Uses : the most well-known use case for optical character recognition (OCR)
is converting printed paper documents into machine-readable text document

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