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  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) (Optical Scanning)

    Technology that converts images containing text into formats with editable text. OCR allows for scanned books, screenshots, and photos with text to be turned into editable documents like TXT, DOC, or PDF files. (Nicomsoft, 2012) First used by the U.S. Postal Service in 1965 to sort mail. Also used in the warehousing and inventory control arena of public procurement.

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