Ocr user-defined variables, Reading multi-row ocr – Datalogic Scanning POWERSCAN 7000 User Manual

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OCR User-Defined Variables

Product Reference Guide

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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 tem-
plate. 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 (

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). 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 (

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). Scan

414243

from

the

Programming Chart

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

Save OCR Template

(

page 8-17

). 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

The PowerScan 2D is capable of decoding multi-row OCR text.

NOTE

Reading rows longer than sixteen characters is
not recommended.

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