Hand Held Products 4410 manual Stringing Together Multiple Formats Creating Or Statements

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”). ScanSave 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

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