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Created from ANSI Specs
- The OCR-A and OCR-B fonts are special fonts that are used for |
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optical character recognition systems. The OCR-A and
OCR-B character sets contain upper case and lower case letters, numbers,
and several special characters. The OCR-A font characters were created
from ANSI X3.17-1981 specifications and the OCR-B font characters
were created from ANSI X3.49-1982 specifications. |
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Special Symbols - are provided for
purposes such as international character support. To see |
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locations for these symbols, open the IDAutomationOCRa
font in Windows® and go to the "Character Map" application.
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ANSI Size 1 and 4 - when printing the
IDAutomationOCRa font with the size of 12, this font |
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conforms to ANSI specification size 4 which is an approximate
character height of 3.8mm and a character width of 2mm. The IDAutomationOCRa
font should be printed at 9 points for IDAutomationOCRa size 1 and
3 which is 10 CPI. |
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USPS Mail - our OCR-A font at 9 points
is being used to print OCR readable mail in the US. |
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Norwegian Bank Checks - when printing
the OCR-B font with the size of 14, this font conforms to |
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ANSI specification size 1. The OCR-B font at 14 points
has been accepted by BBS (Norwegian banks payment centre) for use
on bank checks in Norway. |
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OCR A1 EUROBANKING and German Bank Checks
- in this package we also include a special |
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font named "a1eurobanking". This is an OCR-A
size 1 font with special symbols for the bank cheques such as Chair
and Fork which are placed at character locations "a" and
"b". This font (cheque schriften) is also being used to
print German bank checks and includes the proper symbols for printing
these checks. |
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OCR B1 EUROBANKING - our OCR-B font
at size 1 and supports the character set of the OCR-B1 |
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Eurobanking standard. This standard includes the numbers
0 - 9, some uppercase letters and a range of special characters (<
> + - / # * | . , "). Our OCR B font meets the specifications
for the ECMA-11 norm and can be used on accept giro forms. |
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Full Embedding Support - the embedding
support of our fonts enables them to be encoded / |
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embedded in special PDF document applications such as
Adobe Writer, Distiller, PDF Lib and FOP TTF Reader. This level of
embedding also supports creation of OpenType and TrueDoc fonts for
webpages. |