noun
Magnetic Ink Character Reader; Magnetic Ink Character Recognition; MICR
Technical term in computing and banking for reading characters printed with magnetic ink, often abbreviated as MICR.
銀行では磁気インク文字読取装置を使って小切手を処理している。
Banks process checks using Magnetic Ink Character Readers.
Standard technical spelling using 読取.
Variant with okurigana 読み取り; equally valid in technical contexts.
Mixed okurigana variant; less common but still seen.
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) reads printed text optically, while MICR uses magnetic ink and is mainly used in banking.
Compound of 磁気 (magnetic), インク (ink), 文字 (character), 読取 (reading), and 装置 (device). A direct translation of the English term.