Optical character recognition Character set OCR-A. Shapes and dimensions of the printed image

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English

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29-04-1977

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British Standards Institution

Foreword
Cooperating organizations
Specification
1. General
2. Character set OCR-A
3. Character shapes and dimensions
4. Use of the table of values
5. Radii and corners
6. Relative vertical position of printed characters
7. Relative horizontal position of printed characters
Tables
1. OCR-A printing frame dimensions
2. Radii
3. OCR-A values

Establishes a common basis for printing and optical scanning equipment for interchange applications.

This International Standard for character shapes and sizes is intended 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.

It establishes a common basis for printing equipment and optical scanning equipment for OCR interchange applications.

Additional International Standards will cover the print quality and the relevant characteristics of the formats needed to satisfy interchange requirements.

Committee	IST/12
DevelopmentNote	Also numbered as ISO 1073-1. Supersedes 75/73081 DC. (08/2005)
DocumentType	Standard
Pages	32
PublisherName	British Standards Institution
Status	Current

BS 6616:1986	Specification for paper and print for optical character recognition (OCR)
BS 5464-3:1983	Optical character recognition Method of coding machine readable characters (MICR and OCR) for information processing
BS EN 726-6:1996	Identification card systems. Telecommunications. Integrated circuit(s) cards and terminals Telecommunication features
BS 7106-1:1989	Guide to recording techniques for information on identification cards Embossing

ISO 31-0:1992	Quantities and units Part 0: General principles
BS 4730:1993	Specification for UK 7-bit coded character set

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BS 5464-1:1977

Optical character recognition Character set OCR-A. Shapes and dimensions of the printed image

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