HandHeld Entertainment 4800i, 4600rp, 4600g manual OCR User-Defined Variables, Abc

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 9-13). 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.” You need a variable to repre- sent the letters “A,” “B,” or “C.” The template for this user-defined variable would be:

ABC

Using Visual Xpress (see page 11-4), you can enter the string as shown above into the “G variable” text box. You must enclose the strings between quotes: “ABC”.

You may also create this user-defined variable by scanning barcodes. Scan the Enter User-Defined Variable g symbol (page 9-13). Then scan 414243 from the inside back cover (the hex characters for “A,” “B,” and “C”), Scan Save OCR Template, page 9-13. This will let you read either A or B or C in any position where you place the g in the template. For example, you could create the fol- lowing template:

ddddddggg

(Using Visual Xpress, you must enter “ddddddggg” in the Template text box.)

This template would then let you read data that began with six digits, and had an A, B, or C trailing. So you would be able to read:

654321ABC

or

654321BAC

or

654321CCC

(The above OCR sample is OCR-A. You must enable the OCR-A font (page 9- 1) in order to read it.)

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