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The breakdown:

Groups

In a given character position, you must specify which values a text charac-

ter may take. To reduce the overall size of templates, you may define com-

mon groups of ASCII characters and then use the defined group control

character rather than repeating the same sequence over and over.

Groups can be made up of individual ASCII values or wildcard values. The

wildcard values are Control Codes Numeric (5), Alpha (6), Alphanumeric

(7), and Any(8).

To define a group, specify the Defined Group control code followed by an

ID from 1 to 255. (Up to 255 groups may be defined in a single template.)

Use the group ID to use the group in any template you build.

Note: Groups may not be nested.

Example: You need to read a 3 numeric digits, then either A, B, C, or

another numeric digit. The string would be:

1 2 3 0 0 1 x 4 1 x 4 2 x 4 3 5 4 5 5 5 A 0 0 1 0

Note: Spaces are used in this example only for ease of readability.

Control

Code

Description

1 New Template Code

2 OCR-B font

5 Wildcard: Numeric

F Variable Character Repeat - 5 min, 7 max

0 End of Template