Hardware scanners for single lines of
text or data. Reaching speeds of over 200 characters per
second, OCR readers utilize state-of-the-art feature
extraction and neural network-based recognition
technologies to achieve accuracy rates over 99.9975%, or
one character misread in 40,000. However, most customers
use an automatic check digit validation to achieve error
rates of fewer than one in 3,000,000 characters. Humans
err one in 300!