21. Optical character recognition , as it's called, is an imperfect science. 22. There's optical character recognition , too, so you can convert scanned documents into editable text. 23. The most notable use case for such tasks has been human-assisted optical character recognition . 24. Magnetic ink character recognition ( MICR ) was developed and commercialized in the 1950s. 25. Optical character recognition , or OCR, is the key here. 26. In 1956 he worked for General Electric on Magnetic Ink Character Recognition ( MICR ). 27. UMAX's unit scans quickly and performs nearly flawless optical character recognition ( $ 499 ). 28. :The only even vaguely plausible meaning you might intend for OCR is optical character recognition . 29. Its sharp black-and-white scans translated to excellent character recognition . 30. Older articles have been scanned, and an abstract is created using optical character recognition software.