IDAutomation.com OCR Font Advantage Package
DEMO
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NOTE: These sample OCR fonts should only be used for
testing and evaluation purposes. The number 6 and the letters C and
T have been removed from these sample fonts, however, all other extended
and special characters have been left in the fonts. In addition,
this sample package does not contain the size III and IV fonts. To purchase the font
package that includes all characters and sizes, visit
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INDEX:
OCR fonts are used for several purposes where automated systems need a
standard character shape defined to properly scan numbers and text without
the use of barcodes. Some examples of OCR implementations include bank
checks, passports, serial labels and postal mail. Our OCR Font
Advantage Package includes OCR fonts in several formats that support all of
these implementations. Features of our package include:
- Created from ANSI and ISO Specs - The OCR-A and OCR-B fonts are special fonts that are used for
optical character recognition systems and both include the Euro
character. The OCR-A and OCR-B character sets
contain
upper case and lower case letters, numbers, and several special
characters. The OCR-A font was created from ANSI X3.17-1981(R2002)
and ISO 1073/11 specifications and the OCR-B font characters was created from ANSI X3.49-1982(R2002)
and ISO 1073/1 specifications.
- Special Symbols - are provided for purposes such as international
character support. To see locations for these symbols, open the IDAutomationOCRa font
in Windows® and go to the "Character Map" application.
- ANSI Size 1, 3 and 4 - multiple sizes of each font are provided
for various applications. These sizes are usually represented as roman
numerals I, III and IV. The size I fonts are IDAutomationOCRa and
IDAutomationOCRb.
- USPS Mail - our IDAutomationOCRa font at 9 points is being used to print
OCR readable mail in the US.
- Norwegian Bank Checks - when printing the IDAutomationOCRb font with
the point size of 9, this font conforms to the ISO specification size I. The
OCR-B font at 9 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 - this OCR-A font includes
special symbols such as the Chair, Fork, Hook and Euro for printing bank cheques
in Europe. The IDAutomationOCRa size 1 font (cheque schriften) should be
used to print German bank checks. The following table lists the locations of
these characters that do not have a location in a standard font:
Character |
ASCII Location |
Unicode Location |
Replaces character |
 |
126 |
007E |
~ |
 |
194 |
00C2 |
 |
 |
193 |
00C1 |
Á |
 |
195 |
00C3 |
à |
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OCR B1 EUROBANKING - our IDAutomationOCRb font at point size 9 and supports the
character set of the OCR-B1 Eurobanking standard. This standard includes
the numbers 0 - 9, some uppercase letters and a range of special
characters (< > + - / # * | . , "). Our IDAutomationOCRb font meets the
specifications for the ECMA-11 norm and can be used on accept giro forms.
Our OCR B font includes the Euro symbol.
- Full Embedding Support - the embedding support of our fonts
enables them to be encoded / 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 custom OpenType and TrueDoc fonts for
webpages.
More
about internet fonts...
- Adjustable Spacing - to fine tune the spacing of characters
to match your printer,
change
the point size. For example, setting the IDAutomationOCRa font to 9.10 points
will allow it to print slightly wider on your printer -
more
about this.
- Specifications: (click
here to view font names prior to July, 2003)
Font Name |
Point Size |
CPI |
LPI |
Size |
H |
W |
T |
Notes |
IDAutomationOCRa |
9 |
10 |
5 |
I |
2.4 mm
.094" |
1.4 mm
.055" |
.36 mm
.014" |
Standard
OCR-A size I
Character pitch: 2.54 mm / .1" |
IDAutomationOCRb |
9 |
10 |
6 |
I |
2.39 mm
.094" |
1.4 mm
.055" |
.35 mm
.014" |
Standard
OCR-B size I
Permanent mutual pitch: 2.54 mm / .1"
Max character height: 2.71 mm |
The fonts
listed below are for special purposes and are placed in the "OtherSizes"
folder of the package. These fonts are not available in the demo
version. |
Font Name |
Point Size |
CPI |
LPI |
Size |
H |
W |
T |
Notes |
IDAutomationOCRa6LPI |
9 |
10 |
6 |
I |
2.4 mm
.094" |
1.4 mm
.055" |
.36 mm
.014" |
OCR-A size I
Character pitch: 2.54 mm / .1"
Small letters should not be used with this font. |
IDAutomationOCRaIII |
9 |
10 |
5 |
III |
3.2 mm
.126" |
1.52 mm
.06" |
38 mm
.015" |
OCR-A size
III
Character pitch: 2.54 mm / .1"
Small letters should not be used with this font. |
IDAutomationOCRaIV |
12 |
7 |
4 |
IV |
3.81 mm
.15" |
2.03 mm
.08" |
.51 mm
.02" |
OCR-A size IV
Character pitch: 3.63 mm / .143" |
IDAutomationOCRbIII |
9 |
10 |
5 |
III |
3.2 mm
.126" |
1.52 mm
.06" |
.38 mm
.015" |
OCR-B size III
Permanent mutual pitch: 2.54 mm / .1" |
IDAutomationOCRbIV |
12 |
7 |
4 |
IV |
3.58mm
.141 |
2.10 mm
.083" |
.50 mm
.02" |
OCR-B size IV
Permanent mutual pitch: 3.63 mm / .143" |
Legend:
CPI - characters per inch
LPI - lines per inch
Size - this is the ISO/ANSI size of the characters according to the
specification
H - average centerline character height
W - average centerline character width
T - average character width or line thickness |
- Our OCR Font Advantage Package includes TrueType, OpenType, several PCL
versions and PostScript versions of the OCR fonts. The PostScript
fonts can be used in Unix systems and may be directly
downloaded into PostScript printers. Binary and ASCII
versions of PostScript are provided. TrueType fonts are supplied in PC and Macintosh format. The TrueType
fonts are compatible with Macintosh OS X and all versions of Microsoft
Windows, including
Pocket PC. Get a complete list of what
font
types and versions are provided.
- With the purchase of a Developer License and 1 year of support and
upgrade protection, we can convert fonts from this package to PCL 4, Xerox
Metacode, XES, FNT, BDF, FON and AFP. More about this is
provided here.
The Developer License also grants you the right to convert our fonts to
other formats as necessary including TrueDoc and OpenType.
NOTE:
For the most up to date installation procedures for Windows® 2000, Macintosh,
UNIX and other operating systems please visit our FAQ site at http://www.bizfonts.com/fontfaq.htm
In Windows®, you may run the INSTALL.exe file or do the
following for manual installation:
- Click on Start, select settings and click on Control Panel.
- Click on Fonts, click on File in your main tool bar, select Install New
Font.
- Select the folder where you placed the fonts.
- The OCR font will appear and look like this: IDAutomationOCRa (true type) -
select this font and click on OK.
- Click Start and choose to shut down and restart your computer.
- The font should be active when you restart your computer.
- To create the correct output for the OCR font you will need to select the
appropriate font in your application and type in the corresponding letter.
In Windows®, the Microsoft® Character Map program can be used to identify
non-standard symbols in the OCR-A and OCR-B fonts. This program will tell
you the keystroke necessary to produce the symbols in the OCR fonts and also
allows you to copy the characters to the clipboard for pasting into
applications.
To install the font on the Macintosh:
- Download and install Stuffit Expander on your Macintosh if you do not have
an expander utility that can open ZIP files and decode MacBinary files.
- Open the ZIP distribution file that contains the fonts by dragging the ZIP
file on the Stuffit Expander icon. The font files will be extracted from the
ZIP distribution file and will appear in a subfolder of the folder you
placed the ZIP file in. Open this subfolder to view the MacBinary font
files. At this point, you may want to view the documentation supplied
with the font files. To do so just drag the Readme.htm file to the Netscape
or Internet Explorer icon.
- Now we must decode the files from MacBinary format. Drag the font files
that you wish to use that end with "mtt" to the Stuffit Expander
icon.
- Drag the decoded font files to the System folder.
- Restart the application you wish to use the font with - some applications
require you to restart the computer.
- The font should now be active in the font menu of your application.
- To create the correct output for the font, you will need to choose the
font in your application and type in the corresponding letter.
If you need an OCR Reader, which can easily read machine readable
fonts OCR-A and OCR-B , please visit
here.
Font names used prior to July, 2003
|
Old Font Names |
New Font Names |
Advocra |
IDAutomationOCRa |
Advocra |
IDAutomationOCRa |
A1eurobanking |
IDAutomationOCRa |
Advocrb |
IDAutomationOCRb |
Advocrbn |
IDAutomationOCRb |
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