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4600g, 4600r, 4800i User’s Guide

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 9-13

). 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 9-14

). 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-

13

). 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 9-13

). Scan

414243

from the

Programming Chart

(the hex characters for “A,” “B,” and “C”). Scan

Save

OCR Template

(

page 9-14

). 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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