IDautomation.com OCR Font Advantage Package
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NOTE: These sample OCR fonts
should only be used for testing and evaluation purposes. The numbers 4 - 9 and the letters
e - z and E - Z have been removed from these sample fonts, however, all other
extended and special characters have been left in the fonts. To purchase the font
that includes all characters, visit our
OCR font website or click
here to buy now.
INDEX:
The most up-to-date information about our OCR fonts is available at our main OCR font website.
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. Features of our OCR Font
Advantage Package include:
- Created from ANSI Specs - The OCR-A and OCR-B fonts are special fonts that are used for
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.
- Special Symbols - are provided for purposes such as international
character support. To see locations for these symbols, open the OCR-A font
in Windows and go to the "Character Map" application.
- ANSI Size 1 and 4 - when printing the OCR-A font with
the point size of 12, this font conforms to ANSI specification size 4; which is an approximate character height of 3.8mm and a character width of
2mm. The OCR-A font should be printed at 9 points for OCR-A size 1
and 3 which is 10 CPI.
- USPS Mail - our OCR-A font at 9 points is being used to print
OCR readable mail in the US.
- Norwegian Bank Checks - when printing the OCR-B font with
the point size of 14, this font conforms to 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 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 Eurobanking standard. This standard includes
the numbers 0 - 9, some uppercase letters and a range of special
characters (< > + - / # * | . , ").
- 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 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 OCR A font to 9.10 points
will allow it to print slightly wider on your printer - more
about this.
- Specifications:
Font Name |
Point Size |
CPI |
ANSI Specification & Size |
Advocra |
9 |
10 |
OCR-A size 1 |
Advocra |
12 |
13.3 |
OCR-A size 4 |
A1eurobanking |
9 |
10 |
OCR-A size 1 |
Advocrb |
14 |
10 |
OCR-B size 1 |
Advocrbn |
14 |
11 |
Use only for proprietary
OCR-B
applications (narrow version) |
- The following is sample code from Visual
Basic that selects the OCR-A font and size.
Printer.FontName =
"Advocra"
Printer.FontSize = 12
Printer.Print variable
- Our OCR Font Advantage Package includes TrueType, several PCL
versions and two
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. In addition, Macintosh versions of
TrueType and PostScript are also provided. Get a complete list of what font
types and versions are provided.
To install the TrueType fonts in Windows, run the INSTALL.EXE program or perform 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 barcode fonts.
- The fonts will appear and look like this:
FontName (true type) - select the fonts you want to install and
choose OK.
- Click Start and choose to shut down and restart your
computer.
- The font should be active when you restart your computer.
Installing the fonts on Macintosh OS X:
- Drag or copy and paste the TrueType font file(s) ending in TTF
to the Library/Fonts folder.
- To activate the fonts, restart the application - some applications may
require you to restart the computer.
- The font should now be active in the font menu of your application.
To install the TrueType font on the
Classic Macintosh (OS 7.1 - OS 9):
- 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 font files. At this
point, you may want to view the documentation supplied with the font files.
To do so just drag the file "readme.html" 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 - Fonts
folder.
- Restart the application you wish to use the font with.
- The font will 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.
Font
installation procedures for other operating systems are provided here
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