Name four examples of document readers.

Name four examples of document readers.

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- Optical Character recognition (OCR)
- Optical Bar recognition (OBR)
- Optical Mark recognition (OMR)
- Magnetic Ink Character recognition (MICR)
-Magnetic Strip Reader or card reader

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