Filter
Top Products
9 - 6 4600rp, 4600g/4600r, 4800i User’s Guide
Stringing Together Multiple Formats
(Creating “Or” Statements)
You may want to program the imager to accept many OCR formats. To do this,
you would string together each format with a “t.” This tells the imager to read
optical characters that match any one of the formats in the template.
Example: You need to read any combination of eight digits,
or
a combination of
four digits, two uppercase letters, and two digits. The template would
be:
ddddddddtddddlldd
To create this template, you would enable the OCR-A font. Scan the
Enter
OCR Template
symbol (page 9-13). Scan the
d
from the OCR Programming
Chart in the back of this manual eight times, then scan the
t
to create the “or”
statement. Then you would scan the characters for the second template.
Scan
d
four times, scan
l
two times, then scan
d
two more times. Scan
Save
OCR Template
(page 9-14). This would let you read either type of format, for
example:
99028650
or
9902XZ50
You can string together as many templates as you need.
OCR User-Defined Variables
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 9-
13). The letters g and h can then be used in an OCR template to define the
variable you specified.
Example: 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 enable the OCR-A font. Scan the
Enter
User-Defined Variable
g
symbol (page 9-13). Scan
414243
from the
Programming Chart (the hex characters for “A,” “B,” and “C”). Scan
Save
OCR Template
(page 9-14). 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