OCR-B

OCR-B is a monospace font developed in 1968 by Adrian Frutiger for Monotype by following the European Computer Manufacturer's Association standard. Its function was to facilitate the optical character recognition operations by specific electronic devices. It was accepted as the world standard in 1973. It follows the ISO 1073/II-1976 (E) standard, refined in 1979 ("letterpress" design, size I). It has been created to get financial features, bank-oriented specifically. It includes all ASCII symbols, and other symbols included for the bank environment. It is widely used for the human readable digits in UPC / EAN barcodes. It shares the target with OCR-A, but it is easier for the human eye and brain to read and it has a less technical look.

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OCR

OCR may refer to:

OCR FM

OCR FM is a non-profit community radio station based in Colac, Victoria, Australia. OCR is a volunteer organisation with no employed staff, broadcasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with locally produced programming supplemented by locally produced announcements and music.

History and previous identities

3OCR was previously known as Otway FM, however with the change-over to a full licence from a previously allocated Temporary Community Broadcasting Licence (TCBL) the organisation's name was changed to reflect its call sign. The name itself OCR represents "Otways Community Radio"

Colac Community Radio Group Inc. was established in 1991 by Group president Anthony Prytz, after an advertisement in 'The Colac Herald' was placed calling for a public expressions of interest meeting by Prytz to start a new radio station in Colac.

Approximately 25 people attended that meeting, held at the old Adult Education Center in Murray Street (Now home to an Asian restaurant).

The stations first (temporary) studios were set up above an architect office in Murray Street (for approximately 2 months at no charge to the group) so members could become familiar with borrowed equipment in readiness for the group's first test broadcast that year. Then the station moved to 168b Murray Street Colac, above a local sports store, for a "peppercorn" rent negotiated with the sports store owner at the time Don Nicholson.

Optical Character Recognition (Unicode block)

Optical Character Recognition is a Unicode block containing signal characters for OCR standards.

Character table

Subheadings

The Optical Character Recognition block has three informal subheadings (groupings) within its character collection: OCR-A, MICR, and OCR.

OCR-A

The OCR-A subheading contains six characters taken from the OCR-A font described in the ISO 1073-1:1976 standard: U+2440 ⑀ OCR HOOK, U+2441 ⑁ OCR CHAIR, U+2442 ⑂ OCR FORK, U+2443 ⑃ OCR INVERTED FORK, U+2444 ⑄ OCR BELT BUCKLE, and U+2445 ⑅ OCR BOW TIE. The OCR bow tie is given the informative alias "unique asterisk".

MICR

The MICR subheading contains four characters standardized in the ISO 1004:1995 standard, from the magnetic ink character recognition E-13B font: U+2446 ⑆ OCR BRANCH BANK IDENTIFICATION, U+2447 ⑇ OCR AMOUNT OF CHECK, U+2448 ⑈ OCR DASH, and U+2449 ⑉ OCR CUSTOMER ACCOUNT NUMBER. The latter two characters are misnamed but have correct normative aliases: U+2448 ⑈ is MICR ON US SYMBOL, and U+2449 ⑉ is MICR DASH SYMBOL (the standard notes that "the Unicode character names include several misnomers"). All four characters have informative aliases: "transit", "amount", "on us", and "dash" respectively.