INCITS/ISO 1073-2 : 1976
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ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTER SETS FOR OPTICAL RECOGNITION - PART 2: CHARACTER SET OCR-B - SHAPES AND DIMENSIONS OF THE PRINTED IMAGE
Hardcopy
18-10-2015
English
01-01-2004
Foreword
1 GENERAL
2 STYLES
3 OCR-B SIZES
4 TYPICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE NOMINAL PRINTED IMAGE
5 OCR-B CHARACTER SET
6 INDEX TABLE
7 USE OF DIACRITICAL SIGNS
8 USE OF THE TWO UNDERLINE CHARACTERS
9 SPACE (no reference drawing)
10 VERTICAL LINE AND LONG VERTICAL MARK
11 CHARACTER SHAPE DEFINITION
12 PRINTING THE LETTERPRESS AND CONSTANT STROKEWIDTH FONTS
13 ILLUSTRATION OF OCR-B
ANNEX A - OLD DESIGN OF DIGIT ZERO
ANNEX B - EXISTING APPLICATIONS USING FORMER SIZE II WITH
FORMER FONT DESIGN OF THE TEN DIGITS
ANNEX C - RECOMMENDATION FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OCR-B ON
TYPEWRITERS
The present document is aimed to facilitate and foster the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in data processing, by defining character shapes suitable for both human and machine reading.
| DocumentType |
Standard
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| Pages |
44
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| ProductNote |
Reconfirmed 1976
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| PublisherName |
Information Technology Industry Council
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| Status |
Superseded
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| SupersededBy |
| Standards | Relationship |
| ISO 1073-2:1976 | Identical |
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