magnetic ink character recognition (MICR)
Machine recognition of stylised characters printed in magnetic ink. It is very reliable, so it is suitable for purposes needing accuracy such as banking. The commonest application is the data printed on a bank cheque: the cheque number, the sort code and the account number. These characters are both machine and human readable.
Related terms
optical character recognition (OCR)
optical mark recognition (OMR)
voice recognition
handwriting recognition
Term sub categories
Managing data
collecting
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