Is MICR an optical device?
Olivia Hensley
Updated on March 06, 2026
Scanner is an example of optical input device. Other common optical input devices are magnetic ink
character reader
One study based on recognition of 19th- and early 20th-century newspaper pages concluded that character-by-character OCR accuracy for commercial OCR software varied from 81% to 99%; total accuracy can be achieved by human review or Data Dictionary Authentication.
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optical mark reader
Optical character reader (OCR) detects shape, and can identify characters. It can examine each character as if it were made up of a collection of minute spots. Once the whole character has been scanned, the pattern detected is matched against a set of patterns stored in the computer.
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