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Article #11530Re: Classic Technical/Computer FONT - Where?
From: Berthold K.P. Horn
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:00
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Chris.Bitmead@Alcatel.com.au (Chris Bitmead) writes: > > > Does anyone know if there is a TeX font available that looks like that > techo writing on the bottom of cheques? You know, that old-style techo > font that is used by character readers with little bits of the > characters with bits sticking out to allow an optical reader to > recognise it. > > Email reply would help. > It is not eactly clear what you are asking for but Adobe OCR-A, OCR-B and MIRCB are designed for this purpose. Check out http://www.adobe.com and do a search -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Berthold K.P. Horn Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9e16,90aece7b63bc03a X-Google-Attributes: gidf9e16,public X-Google-Thread: 10b0c4,90aece7b63bc03a X-Google-Attributes: gid10b0c4,public X-Google-Thread: fbb79,56ea456ce66b9499,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb79,public From: bkph@kauai (Berthold K.P. Horn) Subject: Re: Classic Technical/Computer FONT - Where? Date: 1997/02/19 Message-ID: <vuxpvxwsqbr.fsf@kauai.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me> X-Deja-AN: 219872318 Distribution: inet References: <BITMEADC.97Feb7150008@Alcatel.com.au> Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,aus.computers.tex,comp.fonts