Kurzweil Desktop ICR

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Category
Advertising
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Text on Button Catch the page! Kurzweil Desktop ICR
Image Description

Illustration of a quill over turquoise text over white text on a light blue background
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 3/4 inch x 2 3/4 inch
Year / Decade Made
1980s
Additional Information

In the late 1980's Kurzweil Computer Products of Cambridge, Massachusetts released their version of a new desktop scanner system that used Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR). ICR is an advanced handwriting recognition system that allows a multitude of handwriting samples to be learned by a computer.  The scanner was named the Discover Model 20 and was capable of reading 5 different languages off of photocopies, printer, and typewriter printouts.
Catalog ID AD0481