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EN 14603 : 2004

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - ALPHANUMERIC GLYPH IMAGE SET FOR OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION OCR-B - SHAPES AND DIMENSIONS OF THE PRINTED IMAGE
Published date

22-12-2004

1 Scope
2 Conformance
3 Normative references
4 Terms and definitions
5 Coding in OCR applications
6 OCR-B styles
7 OCR-B sizes
8 Typical dimensions of the nominal printed image
9 OCR-B glyph image set
   9.1 Subset 1: Minimal alphanumeric subset
   9.2 Subset 2: Basic alphanumeric subset
   9.3 Subset 3: Extended alphanumeric subset
   9.4 Subset 4: Options subset
10 Index table
   10.1 Availability of glyph images
   10.2 Identification of drawings
   10.3 Application considerations
11 Use of diacritical marks
   11.1 Diacritical mark repertoire
   11.2 Composite glyph images
   11.3 Rules for glyph image combinations
12 Use of the LOW LINE glyph
13 SPACE
14 Glyph image shape definitions
   14.1 Reference drawings
   14.2 Availability of duplicates
   14.3 Type dimensions
   14.4 Constant-strokewidth font, size I
   14.5 Constant-strokewidth font, size III
   14.6 Constant-strokewidth font, size IV
   14.7 Letterpress font, size I
15 Printing the letterpress and constant-strokewidth fonts
16 Illustration of OCR-B
Annex A (normative) Definition of Euro sign glyph image
                       (ISO/IEC 9541-3 syntax)
Annex B (informative) Main differences between ISO 1073/II-1976
                       and this European Standard
Annex C (informative) Notes on the implementation of OCR-B
Annex D (informative) Glyph-repertoire extension needs identified
                       in JTC 1/SC 2 revision process
Annex E (informative) Illustrations of reference drawings
Annex F (informative) Availability of reference drawings
Bibliography

Add the Euro Sign into the standardised OCR-B repertoire.

Committee
CEN/TC 304
DocumentType
Standard
PublisherName
Comite Europeen de Normalisation
Status
Current

Standards Relationship
DIN EN 14603:2005-06 Identical
NS EN 14603 : 1ED 2005 Identical
UNI EN 14603 : 2006 Identical
BS EN 14603:2004 Identical
PN EN 14603 : 2006 Identical
NBN EN 14603 : 2005 Identical
I.S. EN 14603:2005 Identical
NEN EN 14603 : 2005 Identical
UNE-EN 14603:2004 Identical
NF EN 14603 : 2005 Identical

VDI/VDE 3699 Blatt 2:2014-01 Process control using display screens - Principles

ISO/IEC 9541-3:1994 Information technology — Font information interchange — Part 3: Glyph shape representation
ISO 1831:1980 Printing specifications for optical character recognition
ISO/IEC 6937:2001 Information technology Coded graphic character set for text communication Latin alphabet
ISO/IEC 646:1991 Information technology ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange
ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 Information technology Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane

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