Definitions for "Intelligent Character Recognition"
computer translation of manually entered text characters into machine-readible characters
Term sometimes given to Optical or Internal Character Recognition where the scanned and recognized information is further interpreted to take advantage of contextual information, that is, words, phrases, and so forth, rather than simply treating the text as a string of independent characters. Intelligent Character Recognition, for example, may be used by sophisticated computer programs to construct concordances automatically, or to create highly- sophisticated indexes. At this stage, intelligent character recognition is a field of research, rather than production, interest. See also: Internal Character Recognition, OCR Last Reviewed: 2003-03-01
A term applied to the recognition of hand printed characters.
A system used to capture claim information directly from the HCFA-1500 claim form; all information which is captured by the computer is transferred into an electronic file which is then passed to the Medicare claims processing system.