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character recognition

n
(Computer Science) computing a magnetic or optical process used to detect the shape of individual characters printed or written on paper
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M2 PRESSWIRE-September 5, 2019-: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Market to Reach $12.6 Billion by 2025 - Revenue Breakdown by Component, End-user and Geography
In an official tweet, Google Photos confirmed that optical character recognition (OCR) is now supported for photos which are uploaded.
The proposed LPR system (hereafter, abbreviated as MSLPRS) integrates an LPR pipeline consists of LP detection, LP type classification, character segmentation, and character recognition processes.
ID technology is the technology of smart cards, optical character recognition, barcodes, biometrics, magnetic stripes and voice recognition.
The aiWARE real-time framework is scheduled to launch this month with natural language processing engines, and Veritone plans to expand its offering of real-time enabled engines across the rest of the company's 15-plus cognitive categories, including transcription, sentiment, visual moderation, translation, as well as object, face, and optical character recognition, "If AI can help us make a decision in a matter of seconds, we will have a powerful tool to help prevent worst-case-scenarios.
The parking fee from the drivers can be automatically collected by OCR (Optical Character Recognition) systems which can recognize license plates.
M2 EQUITYBITES-November 17, 2017-New optical character recognition abilities increase operational efficiency
Among the topics are online handwritten Chinese character recognition: from a Bayesian approach to deep learning, historical Chinese character recognition using transfer learning, and off-line text-independent writer identification for Chinese handwriting.
Template matching technique is used for the character recognition. The recognition outputs compared with the records in a database to come up with the specific information such as the vehicle's owner, place of registration, address.