User Manual Part 2

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A.3.15.7 Stringing Together Multiple Formats (Creating
“Or” Statements)
To program the imager to accept and recognize many OCR formats, it is
necessary to string together each format beginning with a “t.” This unit
commands the imager to read optical characters that match any one of the
formats in the template.
Example: To read any combination of eight digits, or a combination of
four digits, two uppercase letters, and two digits.
The template would be:
To create this template, enable the OCR-A font. Scan the Enter OCR
Template symbol. Scan the d from the OCR Programming Chart eight
times, then scan the t to create the “or” statement. Then scan the charac-
ters for the second template. Scan d four times, scan l two times, then
scan d two more times. Scan Save OCR Template. This would let you
read either type of format, for example:
It is possible to string together as many templates as are required.