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op'tical scan'ning




the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (op'tical scan'ner or read'er) that scans and identifies the data. Cf. optical character recognition.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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