OCR-A
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ocr-a-205-9478887
title:
OCR-A
text:
OCR-A is a font issued in 1966 and first implemented in 1968. A special font was needed in the early days of computer optical character recognition, when there was a need for a font that could be recognized not only by the computers of that day, but also by humans. OCR-A uses 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
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Typeface designed for early computer OCR
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A
date created:
2008-01-04T05:43:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T11:01:58Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Typeface_specimen_OCR_A.svg","width":512,"height":726}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16