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FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE
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OCR A: Wikipedia
Quoting: In the early days of computer optical character recognition, there was a need for a font that could be recognized by the computers of that day, and by humans. The resulting compromise was the OCR-A font, which used simple, thick strokes to form recognizable characters. The font is monospaced (fixed-width), with the printer required to place glyphs 0.254 cm (0.10 inch) apart, and the reader required to accept any spacing between 0.2286 cm (0.09 inch) and 0.4572 cm (0.18 inch). The OCR-A font was standardized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as X3.4-1977. X3.4 has since become the INCITS and the OCR-A standard is now called ISO 1073-1:1976. There is also a German standard for OCR-A called DIN 66008. |
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file name: Adrian Frutiger O C R A 1968 Poster by Anderson Vasconcellos 2014
file name: American Type Founders O C R A 1968 poster by Marissa Masbasari 2018
file name: American Type Founders O C R A 1968 poster by Marissa Masbasari 2018b
file name: 800px O C R A char unaccented capital letters
file name: O C R A char unaccented capital letters
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