4.2.3 Text capture devices
Practically, how can we take text across the boundary?
SAQ 8
What are the main devices for transforming text into digital form inside the computer?
Answer
The most obvious device we have at hand is our friend (or enemy) the keyboard. Other devices include scanners (which produce an image of a page) and optical character recognisers (OCRs). OCRs are now often built into scanners.