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What is MICR? Where is it mostly used? What are the major advantages and disadvantages of MICR as general purpose input medium? |
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Answer» MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. It is a characters recognition technology that can read human unreadable characters that are printed using a special magnetic ink. It is mostly used in banks to facilitate the processing of cheques. Advantages Advantages of MICR are as follows: 1. It decreases the margin of errors. 2. Provides high security. Disadvantages Disadvantages of MICR are as follows: 1. Time consuming standards. 2. The number of characters that can be recorded with present techniques is very limited. |
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