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MARS-1030 User Manual 178
To Add an OCR Template
1. Turn on the OCR font you want to read.
2. Begin building the template.
Scan the Enter OCR Template symbol.
3. Scan the characters for the string.
Use the Template Characters chart above to determine what characters
you need to create your format. Use the OCR Programming Chart (after
the Sample Codes in the back of this manual) to scan the characters for
your template.
Example: You need to read any combination of eight digits. The
template would be:
To create this template, you would enable the OCR-A font. Scan the
Enter OCR Template symbol, and then scan the d from the OCR Pro-
gramming Chart in the back of this manual eight times. Scan Save OCR
Template. This would let you read any string of eight digits, for example:
Character Match Sequences
On the ASCII Conversion Chart (Code Page 1252), page A-4, find the
Hex value that represents the character(s) you want to match. Use the
Programming Chart (inside the back cover) to scan the numbers that rep-
resent these characters.
Example: You need to read three digits, three specific characters (ABC),
three digits. The template would be:
To create this template, you would enable the OCR-A font. Scan the
Enter OCR Template symbol. Scan the d from the OCR Programming
Chart in the back of this manual three times. Then scan 414243 from the
inside back cover (the hex characters for “A,” “B,” and “C”), and scan the