OCR-B Font and ANSI X3.49

Keywords: OCR-B Font, ECMA-11, ANSI X3.49-1975 (R1982), ISO 1073-2:1976

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Barcodesoft OCR-B font is provided to users under GNU General Public License.

Barcodesoft OCR-B font is FREE for both business and personal use. You can use Barcodesoft OCR-B font for website publishing, artwork design, and embedding into PDF documents.

Only big companies with annual sales above USD 1 billion need to buy licenses.

There are 2 font sets the US government accepts for Optical Character Recognition : OCR-A and OCR-B.

ANSI X3.49-1975 (R1982) describes the nominal shapes, sizes, and printing positions of OCR-B characters. Most part of OCRB is identical to what is defined by ECMA-11.
Barcodesoft OCR-B font is also compatible with ISO 1073-2:1976 standard.

Barcodesoft OCR-B font supports Euro banking specifications and are compatible with USPS specification.
This is the mapping table of Barcodesoft OCR-B font
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Barcodesoft OCR-B font is available in true type, PostScript and PCL formats and can be embedded into Adobe PDF files.
Some characters of Barcodesoft OCR-B Demo font have "Demo" watermarks.

OCR A1 EURO BANKING special characters are listed below
Character
UNICODE U+20AC U+20AD
Both OCR-A and OCR-B character sets can be printed in three different sizes (I, III and IV) in order to be used with a wide range of printing devices. Each OCR-A and OCR-B font size is differentiated by its unique scale factor and stroke width.

The choice of sizes for OCR-B application is basically based on requirements for the following printing device:
Size I is used for typewriters and printers.
Size III is used by cash registers and accounting machines.
Size IV is used by credit card imprinters.

Barcodesoft OCR-A and OCR-b font package contains the following font files: OCRA I, OCRA III, OCRA IV, OCRB I, OCRB II and OCRB IV.

This is the pricing list of Barcodesoft OCR-A and OCR-B font package
License Single User 5-User 10-User Site Corporate Developer 5-Developer 10-Developer Unlimited Developer
Price CAD159 CAD299 CAD399 CAD599 CAD799 CAD999 CAD1199 CAD1399 CAD1999
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