wand
A handheld optical reader used to read typewritten fonts, printed fonts, OCR fonts and bar codes. The wand is waved over each line of characters or codes in a single pass. |
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| Handheld optical character readers, or wands, are increasingly being used to capture retail product information in point of sale applications. |
wand
1. a thin rod carried as a symbol of authority
2. a rod used by a magician, water diviner, etc.
3. Informal a conductor's baton
4. Archery a marker used to show the distance at which the archer stands from the target
5. a hand-held electronic device, such as a light pen or bar-code reader, which is pointed at or passed over an item to read the data stored there
wand [wänd]
(computer science)
A hand-held device that contains an optical scanner to sense bar codes and other patterns and transmits the data to a computer.
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