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INCITS/ISO 1073-2 : 1976

Superseded

Superseded

A superseded Standard is one, which is fully replaced by another Standard, which is a new edition of the same Standard.

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A superseded Standard is one, which is fully replaced by another Standard, which is a new edition of the same Standard.

ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTER SETS FOR OPTICAL RECOGNITION - PART 2: CHARACTER SET OCR-B - SHAPES AND DIMENSIONS OF THE PRINTED IMAGE

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

18-10-2015

Language(s)

English

Published date

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
Pages
44
ProductNote
Reconfirmed 1976
PublisherName
Information Technology Industry Council
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy

Standards Relationship
ISO 1073-2:1976 Identical

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