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Multiline optical-character reader. A multiline optical-character reader, or MLOCR, is a type of mail sorting machine that uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to determine how to route mail through the postal system. MLOCRs work by capturing images of the front of letter-sized mailpieces, and extracting the entire address from ...
A whisk broom or spotlight sensor, also known as an across-track scanner, is a technology for obtaining satellite images with optical cameras. [1] It is used for passive remote sensing from space. In a whisk broom sensor, a mirror scans across the satellite ’s path ( ground track ), reflecting light into a single detector which collects data ...
Punched card input/output. An IBM 80-column punched card of the type most widely used in the 20th century. IBM 1442 card reader/punch for 80 column cards. A computer punched card reader or just computer card reader is a computer input device used to read computer programs in either source or executable form and data from punched cards.
Contact image sensors ( CIS) are image sensors used in flatbed scanners almost in direct contact with the object to be scanned. Charge-coupled devices (CCDs), the other kind of sensor often used in scanners, use mirrors to bounce light to a stationary sensor. Scanners using CISs are much smaller than ones that use CCDs, use typically a tenth as ...
Plate reader. Plate readers, also known as microplate readers or microplate photometers, are instruments which are used to detect biological, chemical or physical events of samples in microtiter plates. They are widely used in research, drug discovery, [1] bioassay validation, quality control and manufacturing processes in the pharmaceutical ...
The Aztec Code is a matrix code invented by Andrew Longacre, Jr. and Robert Hussey in 1995. [1] The code was published by AIM, Inc. in 1997. Although the Aztec Code was patented, that patent was officially made public domain. [2] The Aztec Code is also published as ISO/IEC 24778:2008 standard.
Palmistry. A fortune-teller conducting a palm reading, with lines and mounts marked out on the person's left palm. Gold stamped front cover of The Psychonomy of the Hand. Palmistry is the pseudoscientific practice of fortune-telling through the study of the palm. Also known as palm reading, chiromancy, chirology or cheirology, the practice is ...
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The Da Vinci Code follows symbologist Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris entangles them in a dispute between the Priory ...