Hand Held Products 2020, 4620 system manual OCR User-Defined Variables

Note: If using Quick*View to program, use the space bar to designate a space and not the hex value of 20.

4.Exit OCR Template Editor

Scan Save OCR Template to save your entries. Discard OCR Template exits without saving any OCR Template changes.

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 9-14). 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 9-15). 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- 14). 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:

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