Change the OCR Font or Type

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Change the OCR Font or Type

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This is used to changed the default recognition font or type from the default, which is “To Be Detected”. This can be used to look for a specific type of OCR font and is especially useful for recognizing things like Dotmatrix, OCR A and OCR B.

Instructions for setting Font:

1.  Right click on the .sic file and select Open With a text editor (Notepad, Wordpad, etc.)

2.  Find <OCR_TEXT_TYPE>.  If you can’t find <OCR_TEXT_TYPE> then add the following as the last row in the text file:  

<OCR_TEXT_TYPE>#</OCR_TEXT_TYPE>

3.  Change the number in between:  <OCR_TEXT_TYPE>#</OCR_TEXT_TYPE>

4.  Number of desired font:            

  • 0  Normal
  • 1  Typewriter 
  • 2  Dotmatrix 
  • 3  Index
  • 5   A  
  • 6   B 
  • 7  MICR E13B  
  • 8  MICR CMC7   
  • 9  Gothic       
  • 10  To Be Detected

     5.  Close and save file

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