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Stringing Together Multiple Formats
(Creating “Or” Statements)
You may want to program the scanner to accept many OCR formats. To do this,
you would string together each format with a “t.” This tells the scanner to read
optical characters that match any one of the formats in the template.
Example D:
You need to read any combination of 8 digits,
or
a combination
of 4 digits, 2 uppercase letters, and 2 digits. The template would be:
ddddddddtddddlldd
To create this template, you would scan the
Enter OCR Template
symbol
(page 4-10), scan the
d
from the OCR Programming Chart after the Sample
Codes in the back of this manual 8 times, then scan the
t
to create the “or”
statement. Then you would scan the characters for the 2nd template. Scan
the
d
4 times, scan
l
2 times, then scan
d
2 more times. Scan
Save OCR
Template
(page 4-11). This would let you read either type of format, for
example:
99028650
or
9902XZ50
You can string together as many templates as you need.
Creating a User-Defined Variable
You can create up to two of your own user variables for an OCR template. These
variables will represent any OCR readable characters. The user-defined
variables are stored under the letters “g” and “h.” Creating a user variable follows
the same steps as creating a template, but instead of scanning the
Enter OCR
Template
symbol, you scan the
Enter User-Defined Variable
symbol (page 4-
10). The letters g and h can then be used in an OCR template to define the
variable you specified.
Example E:
You need a variable to represent the letters “A,” “B,” or “C.” The
template for this variable would be:
414243
To create this template, you would scan the
Enter User-Defined Variable
g
symbol (page 4-10). Scan
414243
from the inside back cover (the hex
characters for “A,” “B,” and “C”). Scan
Save OCR Template
(page 4-11).
This will let you read either A or B or C in any position where you place the g.
For example, you could create the following template:
ddddddggg