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  2. Optical reader - Wikipedia

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    An optical reader is a device that observes visual information and translates it into digital information, [1] as found within most image and barcode and matrix-code scanners. An example of optical readers are marksense systems for elections where voters mark their choice by filling a rectangle, circle, or oval, or by completing an arrow.

  3. Orbotech - Wikipedia

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    The company providing electronics reading, writing, and connecting solutions used by manufacturers of printed circuit boards, flat panel displays, advanced packaging, micro-electro-mechanical systems and other electronic components. The company is headquartered in Yavne, Israel and operates in North America, Europe, Japan and Asia-Pacific. [1]

  4. IBM optical mark and character readers - Wikipedia

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    It can read a 200 ft (61 m) roll or paper tape in three-and-a half minutes, reading data at speeds of up to 3000 lines per minute. It can mark the tape with a dot to indicate unreadable characters, so they can be rekeyed later. It users System/360 SLT circuitry and scans with an electronic beam of light called a "flying spot". [21]

  5. Questar Corporation - Wikipedia

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    See duplex option below. This was first offered for sale in May 1956. A 3.5" Duplex, optically and mechanically identical to the Standard, but which included a simple way of detaching the telescope from the open fork mount to allow the optical tube assembly (OTA) to be used as a 1240 mm at f12 telephoto lens. This variant has been in production ...

  6. OIP Sensor Systems - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded in Ghent in 1919 () as Optique et Instruments de Précision (Precision Optics and Instruments), as an effort of Belgium to develop its own optical industry for its army. [ 1 ] From its foundation until the 1950s, OIP developed military lenses and objectives, medical and scientific microscopes, as well as cameras and ...

  7. Optical character recognition - Wikipedia

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    Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and ...

  8. Thorlabs - Wikipedia

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    Thorlabs, Inc. is an American privately held optical equipment company headquartered in Newton, New Jersey. [2] The company was founded in 1989 by Alex Cable, who serves as its current CEO. His daughter, Jennifer Cable, serves as president. [3] As of 2018, Thorlabs has annual sales of approximately $500 million. [4]

  9. Optical computing - Wikipedia

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    These will be nonlinear optical crystals used to manipulate light beams into controlling other light beams. Like any computing system, an optical computing system needs four things to function well: optical processor; optical data transfer, e.g. fiber-optic cable; optical storage, [8] optical power source (light source)