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scanner

[skan-er] / ˈskæn ər /
NOUN
optical character recognition
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Just two years after the first UPC barcode was scanned, Business Week ran an article titled “The Supermarket Scanner that Failed” that declared barcodes were already a failure.

From Slate • May 30, 2024

Mr. Jordan’s primary residence is in Florida, according to local news site Lake and McHenry County Scanner.

From Washington Times • Apr. 7, 2023

Ms. Norwood’s Multispectral Scanner — capturing visible colors and other wavelengths not picked up on normal equipment such as infrared — took the existing satellite imagery beyond just looking at the surface.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

It also put on pause the City Council’s pending appointment of a new police chief, Jennifer Louis, the Berkeley Scanner reported.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Each page was cut out of it and fed into an Automatic Document Scanner to make this e-text; hence, the original book was fragmented in order to save it.

From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Bache, Constance




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