character recognition 
noun [mass noun]
The identification by electronic means of printed or written characters.Optical character recognition technology is one important tool that has been slowly improving in quality over the past two decades, but accurate OCR still requires human review and editing....
- Each will be available in Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and English, and the devices will use PenPower handwriting software for Chinese character recognition.
- It supports data entry through an on-screen keyboard and character recognition.