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Chapter 84
Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology
The fundamental process of OCR involves examining the text of a document and translating the characters into code that can be utilized for data processing.
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Phishing Attacks in Mobile Platforms
Thangavel M. (Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India), Yaamine A. M. (Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India), and Nandhini J. T. (Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3473-1.ch084
Abstract
On facing this fast-moving world every bit of the world is leading by technology. Mobile phones are the major part of our day to day life. Mobile platforms are said to be the hardware and software environment for laptops, tablets, smartphones and also for other portable devices. Mobile operating systems and browsers lack secure application identity indicators, so the user cannot always identify whether a link takes to the expected application. Phishing is a most popular attack and it gets targeted mostly at financial organizations. It is a type of online theft where the sensitive information is obtained by redirecting the victim to malicious websites. This chapter discusses about Phishing attacks in Mobile Platforms.
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The Human Resources Perspective on the Multigenerational Workforce
Optical character recognition or reader is a business solution for automating data extraction from physical text with the use of technology to distinguish printed or handwritten text characters.
Published in Chapter: The Human Resources Perspective on the Multigenerational Workforce; From: International Perspectives and Strategies for Managing an Aging Workforce
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Assistive Technology Solutions for Individuals with Learning Problems: Conducting Assessments Using the Functional Evaluation for Assistive Technology (FEAT)
Acronym for Optical Character Recognition, a system, that may be a piece of hardware plugged into a PC or software, which translates print into a format that can be “read and spoken” by the computer or translated into Braille.
Published in Chapter: Assistive Technology Solutions for Individuals with Learning Problems: Conducting Assessments Using the Functional Evaluation for Assistive Technology (FEAT); From: Handbook of Research on Human Cognition and Assistive Technology: Design, Accessibility and Transdisciplinary Perspectives
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Library Digitization: Values and Challenges
This is a software that converts image documents to editable documents.
Published in Chapter: Library Digitization: Values and Challenges; From: Global Perspectives on Sustainable Library Practices
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Application of Natured-Inspired Technique to Odia Handwritten Numeral Recognition
Optical character recognition is the recognition of scanned images of hand written or printed characters.
Published in Chapter: Application of Natured-Inspired Technique to Odia Handwritten Numeral Recognition; From: Handbook of Research on Modeling, Analysis, and Application of Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Algorithms
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