Optical Character Recognition is a Unicode block containing signal characters for OCR standards.
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Character table
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Subheadings
The Optical Character Recognition block has three informal subheadings (groupings) within its character collection: OCR-A, MICR, and OCR.
OCR-A
The OCR-A subheading contains six characters taken from the OCR-A font described in the ISO 1073-1:1976 standard: U+2440 ? OCR HOOK, U+2441 ? OCR CHAIR, U+2442 ? OCR FORK, U+2443 ? OCR INVERTED FORK, U+2444 ? OCR BELT BUCKLE, and U+2445 ? OCR BOW TIE. The OCR bow tie is given the informative alias "unique asterisk".
MICR
The MICR subheading contains four characters standardized in the ISO 1004:1995 standard, from the magnetic ink character recognition E-13B font: U+2446 ? OCR BRANCH BANK IDENTIFICATION, U+2447 ? OCR AMOUNT OF CHECK, U+2448 ? OCR DASH, and U+2449 ? OCR CUSTOMER ACCOUNT NUMBER. The latter two characters are misnamed but have correct normative aliases: U+2448 ? is MICR ON US SYMBOL, and U+2449 ? is MICR DASH SYMBOL (the standard notes that "the Unicode character names include several misnomers"). All four characters have informative aliases: "transit", "amount", "on us", and "dash" respectively.
OCR
The OCR subheading consists of a single character: U+244A ? OCR DOUBLE BACKSLASH.
References
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