Magnetic ink character recognition code, known in short as MICR code, is a character recognition technology used mainly by the banking industry to streamline the processing and clearance of cheques an
An early demonstration of use of an E-13 MICR font on a cheque. The "transit" glyph differs from E-13B.
A cheque signed by Gerald Ford, showing E-13B markings
A cheque signed by Enzo Ferrari in the collection of the Museo Ferrari, showing CMC-7 markings
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OCR-A is a font issued in 1966 and first implemented in 1968. A special font was needed in the early days of computer optical character recognition, when there was a need for a font that could be reco
Magnetic ink character recognition
…standard ISO 2033:1983, and the corresponding Japanese Industrial Standard JIS X 9010:1984 (originally JIS C 6229–1984), define character encodings for OCR-A, OCR-B and E-13B. There are two major MICR fonts in use: E-13B and CMC-7. There is no particular international agreement on which countries use which…
OCR-A on a German bank check. The ⑂, ⑀ and ⑁ characters are used to delimit particular fields in the machine-readable line (shown here partially pixelized out).