OCR(Optical Character Reader) and MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition)

Optical Character Reader (OCR)

This device is capable of detecting alphabetic and numeric characters on a computer print-out containing complete pages of typed or hand-written text. The characters are examined by passing them under a strong light and lens system. The inked areas are differentiated from those which are not inked. Once the whole characters are scanned, they are compared with the characters that the machine has been programmed to recognize. If the pattern of both character matches, the scanned character is accepted foe further operation.

Advantages

• It makes data entry simple and faster using scanners.
• It also reduces worked for people who have to feed large amounts of data into computers on a regular basis.

Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR)

MICR detects the special encoded characters on bank cheques and deposit slip. After detecting the encoded characters, the MICR converts them into digital data for the computer.Bank cheque which will be processed using a MICR device.