IDautomation OCR Font Advantage Package OCR-A & OCR-B Fonts,TrueType, PostScript and PCL Platforms: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003     Size: 696 K     Cost: $590 Get the full version     Trial version     Developer's Website Contacting third-party download site please wait. If your download does not start, click here, or get the full version Descriptions IDautomation OCR Font Advantage Package: OCR-A, OCR-B & Eurobanking Fonts TrueType, OpenType, PostScript and PCL Laserjet soft fonts Included Our OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Font Advantage Package allows you to print according to OCR-A, OCR-B, USPS Mail, OCR-B1 Eurobanking and OCR-A1 Eurobanking specifications from any computer system supporting TrueType, OpenType, PCL or PostScript fonts to any graphics capable printer. Custom BDF, FON, AFP, Xerox Metacode, XES and FNT fonts can also be created with the Developer's License. Our flexible License Agreement allows you to create your own custom OCR application or integrate this functionality into your existing application. Specifications | MICR Fonts User Comments "I found that only your company had the solution I needed searching for an OCRb PCL font for a printer that doesn't have an OCRb font. And yes, it's easy to use." - Annamaria Pingitore, Consultant, Switzerland. About Our OCR-A & OCR-B Fonts OCR fonts are used for several purposes where automated systems need a standard character shape defined to properly scan numbers and text without the use of barcodes. Some examples of OCR implementations include bank checks, passports, serial labels and postal mail. Our OCR Font Advantage Package includes 4 versions of the OCR fonts to support all of these implementations in several versions. Features of our package include: Created from ANSI Specs - The OCR-A and OCR-B fonts are special fonts that are used for optical character recognition systems. The OCR-A and OCR-B character sets contain upper case and lower case letters, numbers, and several special characters. The OCR-A font characters were created from ANSI X3.17-1981 specifications and the OCR-B font characters were created from ANSI X3.49-1982 specifications. Special Symbols - are provided for purposes such as international character support. To see locations for these symbols, open the IDAutomationOCRa font in Windows and go to the "Character Map" application. ANSI Size 1 and 4 - when printing the IDAutomationOCRa font with the size of 12, this font conforms to ANSI specification size 4 which is an approximate character height of 3.8mm and a character width of 2mm. The IDAutomationOCRa font should be printed at 9 points for IDAutomationOCRa size 1 and 3 which is 10 CPI. USPS Mail - our IDAutomationOCRa font at 9 points is being used to print OCR readable mail in the US. Norwegian Bank Checks - when printing the IDAutomationOCRb font with the size of 14, this font conforms to ANSI specification size 1. The OCR-B font at 14 points has been accepted by BBS (Norwegian banks payment centre) for use on bank checks in Norway. OCR A1 EUROBANKING and German Bank Checks - in this package we also include a special font named "a1eurobanking". This is an IDAutomationOCRa size 1 font with special symbols for the bank cheques such as Chair and Fork which are placed at character locations "a" and "b". This font (cheque schriften) is also being used to print German bank checks and includes the proper symbols for printing these checks. OCR B1 EUROBANKING - our IDAutomationOCRb font at size 1 and supports the character set of the OCR-B1 Eurobanking standard. This standard includes the numbers 0 - 9, some uppercase letters and a range of special characters (< > + - / # * | . , "). Our IDAutomationOCRb font meets the specifications for the ECMA-11 norm and can be used on accept giro forms. Full Embedding Support - the embedding support of our fonts enables them to be encoded / embedded in special PDF document applications such as Adobe Writer, Distiller, PDF Lib and FOP TTF Reader. This level of embedding also supports creation of custom OpenType and TrueDoc fonts for webpages. More about internet fonts... Adjustable Spacing - to fine tune the spacing of characters to match your printer, change the point size. For example, setting the IDAutomationOCRa font to 9.10 points will allow it to print slightly wider on your printer - more about this. Specifications: (click here to view font names prior to July, 2003) Font Name Point Size CPI ANSI Specification, Size & Info IDAutomationOCRa 9 10 OCR-A size 1 IDAutomationOCRa 12 13.3 OCR-A size 4 IDAutomationA1Euro 9 10 OCR-A size 1 IDAutomationOCRb 14 10 OCR-B size 1 Permanent mutual pitch: 2.54 mm Line thickness: 0.35 mm Max character height: 2.75 mm IDAutomationOCRbn 14 11 Use only for proprietary OCR-B applications (narrow version) The following is sample code from Visual Basic 6 that selects the IDAutomationOCRa font and size. Printer.FontName = "IDAutomationOCRa" Printer.FontSize = 9 Printer.Print variable Our OCR Font Advantage Package includes TrueType, OpenType, several PCL versions and two PostScript versions of the OCR fonts. The PostScript fonts can be used in Unix systems and may be directly downloaded into PostScript printers. Binary and ASCII versions of PostScript are provided. TrueType fonts are supplied in PC and Macintosh format. The TrueType TTF fonts are compatible with Macintosh OS X and all versions of Microsoft Windows, including Pocket PC. Get a complete list of what font types and versions are provided. With the purchase of a Developer License and 1 year of support and upgrade protection, we can convert fonts from this package to PCL 4, Xerox Metacode, XES, FNT, BDF, FON and AFP. More about this is provided here. The Developer License also grants you the right to convert our fonts to other formats as necessary including TrueDoc and OpenType. To Order the OCR Font License We offer secure online ordering by credit card and immediate delivery via download after your order is approved. Pricing and Licensing: The Small Company Developer License costs $295. With this license, the rights of the Developer License are granted to all organizations with a gross annual revenue or funding of less than 2 million U.S. Dollars (or equivalent amount in a foreign currency) if that company purchases either three (3) Single User Licenses for the same font product or the Small Company Developer License and sends us a signed Small Company Agreement which is located at http://www.idautomation.com/sca/. The Developer License costs $590 and allows one developer royalty-free distribution of the Software internally (in the same organization) and externally (outside the organization bundled with an application) up to 10,000 user licenses, provided you adhere to the Developer License distribution terms. When distributing the fonts outside your organization, you may not resell, rent, lease or distribute the fonts alone, they must be distributed as a component of an application and bundled with an application or with the application's installation files. For details, review the distribution terms. If you have more than one developer that will be developing applications using the fonts, you will need to purchase a Developer License for each additional developer. The 5 Developer License costs $1180 and grants the rights of the Developer License for up to 5 developers and 20,000 user licenses. This license is also granted if two Developer Licenses are purchased. The Unlimited Developer License costs $1770 and grants the rights of the Developer License for an unlimited number of developers and an unlimited number of user licenses. This license is also granted if three Developer Licenses are purchased. The Single User License costs $99 and allows use of the Software for one effective user in your organization. The number of effective users for software licensing is determined by the method defined below that returns the greatest number. The number of users contributing to the data that is printed with the Software. For example, 100 users entering or editing data on a host where only 1 program prints barcodes to 1 printer, would require 100 user licenses. According to the multi-user licensing below, this would require 4 Single User Licenses to be purchased. The number of users that have the Software installed on their CPU. The number of printers that are being printed to with the Software. For example, 1 user printing to 5 printers would require 5 licenses. Per the multi-user licensing below, only 2 Single User Licenses would need to be purchased. Multi-User Licenses are obtained by ordering multiple single user licenses of the same product. The effective number of licensed users is determined by the following: 1 Single User License = 1 licensed user 2 Single User Licenses = 5 licensed users 3 Single User Licenses = 25 licensed users 4 Single User Licenses = 100 licensed users 5 Single User Licenses = 500 licensed users 6 Single User Licenses = Developer License Granted for 10,000 licensed users The Complete Barcode, MICR and OCR Font License allows you to order all of our fonts in one package for a reasonable price. Single user versions are available as well as multi-user and developer licenses. View the link above for pricing on this license. We offer free technical support and product upgrades for a period of 90 days from the date of purchase on all software products. Technical support and product upgrades may be provided beyond 90 days if the Extended Support and Upgrade Protection option is purchased when you order. Installation Instructions NOTE: For the most up to date installation procedures for Windows 2000, Macintosh, UNIX and other operating systems please visit our FAQ site at http://www.bizfonts.com/fontfaq.htm In Windows, you may run the INSTALL.exe file or do the following for manual installation: Click on Start, select settings and click on Control Panel. Click on Fonts, click on File in your main tool bar, select Install New Font. Select the folder where you placed the fonts. The OCR font will appear and look like this: IDAutomationOCRa (true type) - select this font and click on OK. Click Start and choose to shut down and restart your computer. The font should be active when you restart your computer. To create the correct output for the OCR font you will need to select the appropriate font in your application and type in the corresponding letter. In Windows, the Microsoft Character Map program can be used to identify non-standard symbols in the OCR-A and OCR-B fonts. This program will tell you the keystroke necessary to produce the symbols in the OCR fonts and also allows you to copy the characters to the clipboard for pasting into applications. To install the font on the Macintosh: Download and install Stuffit Expander on your Macintosh if you do not have an expander utility that can open ZIP files and decode MacBinary files. Open the ZIP distribution file that contains the fonts by dragging the ZIP file on the Stuffit Expander icon. The font files will be extracted from the ZIP distribution file and will appear in a subfolder of the folder you placed the ZIP file in. Open this subfolder to view the MacBinary font files. At this point, you may want to view the documentation supplied with the font files. To do so just drag the Readme.htm file to the Netscape or Internet Explorer icon. Now we must decode the files from MacBinary format. Drag the font files that you wish to use that end with "mtt" to the Stuffit Expander icon. Drag the decoded font files to the System folder. Restart the application you wish to use the font with - some applications require you to restart the computer. The font should now be active in the font menu of your application. To create the correct output for the font, you will need to choose the font in your application and type in the corresponding letter. Font names used prior to July, 2003 Old Font Name New Font Name Advocra IDAutomationOCRa Advocra IDAutomationOCRa A1eurobanking IDAutomationA1Euro Advocrb IDAutomationOCRb Advocrbn IDAutomationOCRbn OCR-A & OCR-B Fonts - TrueType and PostScript OCR-A and OCR-B fonts in TrueType, PostScript and PCL for Windows, DOS, UNIX, AS/400 and Macintosh. OCR,fonts,OCR-A,OCR-B,OCR A,OCR B,Optical Character Recognition,ocr fonts,TrueType,PostScript,PCL,BDF,FON,laserjet soft fonts,AS/400,schriften,cheque OCR-A & OCR-B Fonts; TrueType, PostScript and PCL