The history of OCR
Subtitle: Optical Character Recognition
By: Herbert F. Schantz.
Publisher: Recognition Technologies Users Association
Published: 1982
Place of publication: [Manchester Center, Vermont, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 114
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: Optical character recognition devices -- History.
Other titles: History of O.C.R., optical character recognition.
First sentence: To answer the question where optical character recognition really began tempts one to be overzealous and to look for OCR's early roots in the well-researched history of mankind's first use of symbols for representing concepts and, later, language.
Description: 1st Edition
Notes: Bibliography: p. 101-103.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Men of Vision
label: Chapter 1; title: OCR's "Fabulous Fifties"
label: Chapter 2; title: Years of Expansion
label: Chapter 3; title: The "Eyes" of Texas 1861-69
label: Chapter 4; title: Sales, Service and Standardization
label: Chapter 5; title: "Why Should I Use OCR?"
label: Chapter 6; title: A Mature Technology 1970-80
label: Chapter 7; title: OCR in the Age of Instant Response
label: Chapter 8; title: OCR List of Terms
label: Appendix A; title: An OCR Chronology
label: Appendix B; title: References
label: Appendix C; title: Footnotes; title: Index