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- OCR software
- software which changes a scanned document
from an image to editable text
- operating system
- the instructions that the computer uses
to tell itself how it "operates". It's the answer to "Who am I and
what can I do?"
- optical codes
- printed bar codes on products, envelopes,
etc.
- optical mark recognition
- machine reads special marks, for example
to score a test
- optical character recognition
- program that uses a machine to recognize
the shapes of letters and characters. In the past special shapes
had to be used that the computer could recognize. Modern OCR
programs can recognize standard fonts very accurately.
- optical disk
- a storage medium which uses tiny lasers
to create peaks and valleys in a plastic layer on a circular disk
- optical card
- embedded data on a card. May not be
updatable.
- orientation
- direction the printed page runs: portrait
or landscape
- OS/2
- an operating system by IBM
- output
- data that has been processed into useful
form, now called Information
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