OCR-A font
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OCR-A is a font issued in 1966 and first implemented in 1968. A special font was needed in the early days of computer optical character recognition, when there was a need for a font that could be recognized not only by the computers of that day, but also by humans. OCR-A uses simple, thick strokes to form recognizable characters. The font is monospaced (fixed-width), with the printer required to place glyphs cm ( inch) apart, and the reader required to accept any spacing between cm ( inch) and cm ( inch).
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- inception
- 1968-00-00
- Commons category
- OCR-A
- inventory number
- 1062.2010
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19 sectionsContents
- Standardization
- Implementations
- Use
- Code points
- Pre-Unicode standard representation
- Dedicated OCR-A characters in Unicode
- Space, digits, and unaccented letters
- Regular characters
- Remaining characters
- Additional characters
- Exceptions
- PrecisionID
- Barcodesoft
- Morovia
- IDAutomation
- Sellers of font standards
- See also
- Notes
- External links
OCR-A is a font issued in 1966 and first implemented in 1968. A special font was needed in the early days of computer optical character recognition, when there was a need for a font that could be recognized not only by the computers of that day, but also by humans. OCR-A uses simple, thick strokes to form recognizable characters. The font is monospaced (fixed-width), with the printer required to place glyphs cm ( inch) apart, and the reader required to accept any spacing between cm ( inch) and cm ( inch).
==Standardization== The OCR-A font was standardized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as ANSI X3.17-1981. X3.4 has since become the INCITS and the OCR-A standard is now called ISO 1073-1:1976.