Workers who feed mail to the optical character readers are at risk of low back problems because the feeding table is lower than the “recommended work surface height,” the report notes.

Just five years ago, the equipment, called Optical Character Readers and Remote Computer Readers, could read only 5% to 10% of those letters, he said.

A Santa Rosa tech fair unveils assistive tech such as optical character readers that scan printed pages then read it to users.

Placing optical character reader (OCR) technology into the machines that automatically position envelopes before applying postmarks will save time by allowing the AFCS to sort by ZIP code and ...

By eliminating the need to retype text from print media onto the screen, Optical Character Reader saves users a great deal of time. The mouse's compact size belies its big-sized capabilities.

That app accomplishes this using optical character recognition (OCR), so you don’t have to painstakingly transcribe text to a Word document by hand.