ANSI/INCITS 17
Character Set for Optical Character Recognition (OCR-A)
| Organization: | ANSI |
| Publication Date: | 1 January 1981 |
| Status: | active |
| Page Count: | 53 |
scope:
This standard prescribes shapes and sizes of OCR-A alphanumeric characters and symbols for optical character recognition (OCR) systems.
Purpose. The purpose of this standard is to establish both a machine-readable and human-readable standard character set, designed for optimizing OCR readability. In order to accommodate a wide variety of OCR applications, the character repertoire includes letters, small letters, and special symbols, in three different sizes.
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