Great Advances in Character Recognition Technology


by 10x Marketing - Date: 2008-07-10 - Word Count: 345 Share This!


Using your personal computer, mobile phone or other PDA’s with note-taking software can save you an insane amount of time and keep you more organized. Combining this new software with a camera attachment even stimulates more progress. Like a scanner, the camera takes pictures of the text and instantly downloads it into your new software, just by searching for the text in the photo image, the image will appear.

 

Other Great Advances in Character Recognition Technology

 


  Medical Billing- hospitals have relied on character recognition to pick up on handwritten charts, prescriptions and medical insurance billing to be instantly
  Since 1965 The United States Post Office- Reads millions of letters as they are processed through the character reader in milliseconds
  Banks- Checks and other paper statements are read with character recognition technology to have on electronic file
  Businesses- Rely on character recognition technology to move paper files into digital storage, eliminating the need for paper files which take up vast amounts of space.
  Handwritten Sheet Music- Stacks of handwritten sheet music can now be read instantly
  Helping the Blind and Other Disabilities- With a character recognition device reading the text on a page and speaking it out loud to a blind person, all text that doesn’t have Braille is able to be read. As a great majority of our population gets older, the elderly population will greatly benefit from new character recognition possibilities. This new technology already provides a level of independence for people with disabilities not previous available. This technology offers the user a quick and portable solution for work, school and in daily life such as menu reading or bus schedules. What’s more, people who fear losing an occupation due to failing sight, or fear asking assistance for small reading tasks as they age will find comfort in new character recognition options.

 

 

So many other incredible advances have been made using character recognition technology. Scanning books to recognizing speech, character recognition has been a dream come true for time saving advances. Where will character recognition take us next?


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