A technique for recognizing a font optically. OCR may refer to the technology, the machine or any aspect related to the technique or machine. The machine recognition of printed characters such as OCR fonts, typewriter, hand printed and computer printed characters. Machine reading of print in a readable font, using an optical read head. This is the most common type of recognition used in remittance processing. A machine used by the USPS that identifies printed characters. It reads the zip code, converts it to a binary barcode and sprays that barcode onto the mail piece. An automated mail-sorting machine that interprets the address information on a letter-size mail piece and sprays the corresponding zip code information onto the piece as a barcode. The OCR consists of a mail feed unit, transport unit, stacker modules, and a computer with a control system, video monitor and printer.
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