Datalogic Scanning POWERSCAN 7000 User Manual
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OCR Templates
Product Reference Guide
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You need to read any combination of eight digits. The template
would be:
dddddddd
To create this template, you would enable the OCR-A font. Scan the
Enter OCR Template
symbol (
page 8-16
), then scan the
d
from the
OCR
Programming Chart on page B-4
eight times. Scan
Save OCR Template
(
page 8-17
). This would let you read any string of eight digits, for exam-
ple:
37680981
Character Match Sequences
On the
ASCII Conversion Chart (Code Page 1252) on page A-4
, find the
Hex value that represents the character(s) you want to match. Use the
Programming Chart on page B-5
to scan the numbers that represent these
characters.
Example:
You need to read three digits, three specific characters (ABC), three digits.
The template would be:
ddd414243ddd
To create this template, you would enable the OCR-A font. Scan the
Enter OCR Template
symbol (
page 8-16
). Scan the
d
from the
OCR Pro-
gramming Chart on page B-4
three times. Then scan
414243
from the
Pro-
gramming Chart on page B-5
(the hex characters for “A,” “B,” and “C”),
and scan the
d
three more times. Scan
Save OCR Template,
page 8-17
.
This would let you read any string of three digits, “ABC,” then any string
of three digits, for example:
551ABC983
Adding Spaces
You may also need to put spaces in your template.
Example:
You need to read three digits, space, three specific characters (ABC), space,
three digits. The template would be:
ddd2041424320ddd
}
hex codes for letters
A, B, and C
hex code for a space