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Data Capture Keyboard data entry the most common input device suitable for a wide range of applications entering programs typing all kinds of documents using a word processor entering personal details of customers or patients at a hospital, etc. Keyboard data entry – Disadvantages Data entered at a keyboard is commonly copied from a source document, and as such It is easy to make transcription errors – that is, copy the data wrongly from the document It is time-consuming Data entry operators who enter data all day every day are prone to repetitive strain injury (RSI), a condition which renders them unable to do any further data entry Voice data entry The user speaks the text into a microphone Special software interprets the text and displays it on a screen Text may be edited using the keyboard and exported to a word processing package such as Word. The accuracy of the voice recognition system is improved by ‘training’ it to a particular user’s voice Scanners and OCR An optical scanner can be used to scan graphical images and photographs Software can then be used to edit or touch up the images Scanners can also be used to read typed or even hand-written documents Scanners and OCR (continued) OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software can then be used to interpret the text and export it to a word processor or data file Scanners are also used to input large volumes of data on preprinted forms such as credit card payments, where the customers account number and amount paid are printed at the bottom of the payment slip. Key-to-disk systems Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) All banks use MICR for processing cheques. Along the bottom of a cheque the bank’s sort code, customer account number and cheque number are encoded in special characters in magnetic ink. The amount of the cheque is encoded in magnetic ink when it is handed in at a bank. The cheques can then be processed extremely fast by high-speed MICR devices that read, sort and store the data on disk. MI