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What do the acronyms ICR, OCR, MICR, and OMR stand for?

April 26, 2017Acronyms ICR MICR OCR OMR stand

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What do the acronyms ICR, OCR, MICR, and OMR stand for?

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ICR – Intelligent Character Recognition: handwriting recognition OCR – Optical Character Recognition: the recognition of machine printed text OMR – Optical Mark Recognition: the evaluation of Marksense forms (that require a number two pencil to fill in circles for answers, like those used for standardized testing and state lotteries). This is done without the specialized scanners normally required.