INCITS/ISO 1831 : 1980 : R2004

0 Introduction
  0.1 Interpretation of the International Standard
  0.2 Use of the International Standard
  0.3 Annexes
1 Scope and field of application
2 References
3 Spectral requirements
  3.1 General
  3.2 Spectral bands
4 Paper specifications for OCR
  4.1 General
  4.2 Luminous reflectance factor R[u] of paper
  4.3 Dirt in paper
  4.4 Paper opacity
  4.5 Variation in reflectance of paper
5 Characteristics of the printed image
  5.1 General
  5.2 Print quality tolerance ranges
  5.3 Definition of character outline limits
  5.4 Measurements of parameters
6 Character positioning
  6.1 General
  6.2 Document reference edges
  6.3 Character boundary
  6.4 Character skew
  6.5 Line boundary
  6.6 Field
  6.7 Horizontal positioning of characters within a line
  6.8 Character alignment within a line
  6.9 Printing area
  6.10 Clear area
  6.11 Margin
  6.12 Line separation
  6.13 Line spacing
Annexes
A Paper characteristics and measurements
B Characteristics of the printed image
C Computer-aided method (CAM) of print quality measurement
D Character positioning

Provides the basic definitions, measurement requirements, specifications and recommendations for OCR paper and print.