The history of OCR

Optical Character Recognition

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The history of OCR

Optical Character Recognition

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English
Pages
114

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Cover of: The history of OCR
The history of OCR: Optical Character Recognition
1982, Recognition Technologies Users Association
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[Manchester Center, Vermont, USA

First Sentence

"To answer the question where optical character recognition really began tempts one to be overzealous and to look for OCR's early roots in the well-researched history of mankind's first use of symbols for representing concepts and, later, language."

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Men of Vision
Chapter 2. OCR's "Fabulous Fifties"
Chapter 3. Years of Expansion
Chapter 4. The "Eyes" of Texas 1861-69
Chapter 5. Sales, Service and Standardization
Chapter 6. "Why Should I Use OCR?"
Chapter 7. A Mature Technology 1970-80
Chapter 8. OCR in the Age of Instant Response
Appendix A. OCR List of Terms
Appendix B. An OCR Chronology
Appendix C. References
Footnotes
Index

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 101-103.
Includes index.

Other Titles
History of O.C.R., optical character recognition.
Copyright Date
1982

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
001.53/4
Library of Congress
TA1640 .S33 1982

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
v, 114 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
114

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3509073M
Internet Archive
historyofocropti0000scha
ISBN 10
0943072018
LCCN
82060600
OCLC/WorldCat
60086004
Library Thing
6183985
Goodreads
3803903

Work Description

A history of OCR technology, esp. from the 1950s through the 1970s.

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