Recent advances in optical character recognition have now made what was a fairly inexact science almost totally accurate, although limited intervention is still required. OCR works only on typeset texts, but today's products can cope with virtually any font. Though it has much in common with OCR, ICR is still in its infancy.
Data can take the form of a check mark, a cross, or a even a scribble.
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