C2R Colibri 5 Series, User Manual

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Colibri serie 5 : User’s guide
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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 108). 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 108). 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 108). 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 108). Scan 414243 from the Programming Chart (the hex characters for
“A,” “B,” and “C”). Scan Save OCR Template (page 108). 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
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
Reading Multi-Row OCR