Edward "Gordon" Perry Jr. (September 29, 1912 – March 14, 2013) was an American inventor and businessman who served as chief research engineer for Texas Instruments. He was also a co-founder of Recognition Equipment, Inc, (REI). He is best known for inventing the first commercially viable Retina Character Reader (today known as the optical scanner or OCR).
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29 September 1912 El Paso, Texas
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Died |
14 March 2013 (aged 100)
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Zodiac | Libra |
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