Hand Held Products 4410 manual Creating an OCR Template, Template Characters

Creating an OCR Template

A single template allows you to program the scanner to read any combination of characters in the order you specify. Refer to examples that follow the Template Characters table below.

Template Characters

a	represents any alphanumeric character (digit or letter)
c	represents a check character position
d	represents any digit
e	represents any available OCR character
g	represents character from user-defined variable “g”
h	represents character from user-defined variable “h”
l	represents any uppercase letter
t	marks the start of a new template
r	multi row indicator

All other characters represent themselves. Spaces can be used.

To Add an OCR Template

1.Begin building the template.

Scan the Enter OCR Template symbol (page 4-10).

2.Scan the characters for the string.

Use the Template Characters chart above to determine what characters you need to create your format. Use the OCR Programming Chart (after the Sample Codes in the back of this manual) to scan the characters for your template.

Example A: You need to read any combination of 8 digits. The template would be:

dddddddd

To create this template, you would scan the Enter OCR Template symbol (page 4-10), then scan the d from the OCR Programming Chart after the Sample Codes in the back of this manual 8 times. Scan Save OCR Template (page 4-11). This would let you read any string of 8 digits, for example:

37680981

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