Punctuation, MICR, and Special OCR Characters
The following tables contain punctuation and miscellaneous characters.
NOTE: Some of these characters will not be displayed unless the output file format is UNICODE compliant, with UNICODE fonts loaded (for example, MS Word Arial Unicode MS).
PUNCTUATION CHARACTERS
Character description |
Character value |
Recognize method |
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(UNICODE) |
DOT |
RER |
HNR |
MAT |
Apostrophe-Quote |
0x0027 |
DOT |
RER |
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Closing Curly Bracket |
0x007d |
DOT |
RER |
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Closing Parenthesis |
0x0029 |
DOT |
RER |
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Closing Square Bracket |
0x005d |
DOT |
RER |
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Colon |
0x003a |
DOT |
RER |
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Comma |
0x002c |
DOT |
RER |
HNR |
OCRA, OCRB |
Double Quotation Mark Left |
0x201c |
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Double Quotation Mark Right |
0x201d |
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Em dash |
0x2014 |
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En dash |
0x2013 |
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Exclamation Mark |
0x0021 |
DOT |
RER |
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Hyphen-Minus |
0x002d |
DOT |
RER |
HNR |
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Inverted Exclamation Mark |
0x00a1 |
DOT |
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Inverted Question Mark |
0x00bf |
DOT |
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Left Single Quotation Mark |
0x2018 |
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Right Single Quotation Mark |
0x2019 |
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Low Dbl. Comma Quot. Mark |
0x201e |
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Low Single Comma Quot. Mark |
0x201a |
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Opening Curly Bracket |
0x007b |
DOT |
RER |
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Opening Parenthesis |
0x0028 |
DOT |
RER |
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Opening Square Bracket |
0x005b |
DOT |
RER |
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Period (full-stop) |
0x002e |
DOT |
RER |
HNR |
All MAT |
Question Mark |
0x003f |
DOT |
RER |
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Quotation Mark |
0x0022 |
DOT |
RER |
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Semicolon |
0x003b |
DOT |
RER |
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Left Pointing Single Guillemet |
0x2039 |
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Right Pointing Single Guillemet |
0x203a |
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Soft Hyphen |
0x20ad |
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Spacing Grave |
0x0060 |
DOT |
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MISCELLANEOUS CHARACTERS
Character description |
Character value |
Recognize method |
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(UNICODE) |
DOT |
RER |
HNR |
MAT |
Acute |
0x00b4 |
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Ampersand |
0x0026 |
DOT |
RER |
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Asterisk |
0x002a |
DOT |
RER |
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OCRA |
Backslash |
0x005c |
DOT |
RER |
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OCRA |
Bullet |
0x2022 |
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Broken Bar |
0x00a6 |
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Cedilla |
0x00b8 |
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Cent Sign |
0x00a2 |
DOT |
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Circumflex |
0x02c6 |
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Commercial At |
0x0040 |
DOT |
RER |
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MICR |
Copyright Sign |
0x00a9 |
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Currency Sign |
0x00a4 |
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Dagger |
0x2020 |
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Degree Sign |
0x00b0 |
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Diaresis |
0x00a8 |
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Dollar Sign |
0x0024 |
DOT |
RER |
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OCRA |
Double Dagger |
0x2021 |
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Equals Sign |
0x003d |
DOT |
RER |
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Euro Sign |
0x20ac |
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Greater-Than Sign |
0x003e |
DOT |
RER |
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OCRA, OCRB |
Horizontal Ellipsis |
0x2026 |
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Left Pointing Guillemet |
0x00ab |
DOT |
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Less-Than Sign |
0x003c |
DOT |
RER |
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OCRA, OCRB |
Macron |
0x00af |
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Math Division Sign |
0x00f7 |
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Math Multipication Sign |
0x00d7 |
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Micron |
0x00b5 |
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Midddle Dot |
0x00b7 |
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Not Sign |
0x00ac |
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Number Sign |
0x0023 |
DOT |
RER |
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MICR |
Per Mille Sign |
0x2030 |
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Percent Sign |
0x0025 |
DOT |
RER |
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Pilcrow Sign |
0x00b6 |
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Plus Sign |
0x002b |
DOT |
RER |
HNR |
OCRA, OCRB |
Plus-OR-Minus Sign |
0x00b1 |
DOT |
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Pound Sign |
0x00a3 |
DOT |
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Registered Trade Mark Sign |
0x00ae |
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Right Pointing Guillemet |
0x00bb |
DOT |
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Section Sign |
0x00a7 |
DOT |
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Slash |
0x002f |
DOT |
RER |
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OCRA, OCRB |
Sml. Script F |
0x0192 |
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Sml. Tilde |
0x02dc |
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Space |
0x0020 |
DOT |
RER |
HNR |
all MAT |
Spacing Circumflex |
0x005e |
DOT |
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Spacing Underscore |
0x005f |
DOT |
RER |
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Superscript One |
0x00b9 |
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Superscript Three |
0x00b3 |
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Superscript Two |
0x00b2 |
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Tilde |
0x007e |
DOT |
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Trade Mark Sign |
0x2122 |
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Vertical Bar |
0x007c |
DOT |
RER |
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Vulgar Fraction Three Quarter |
0x00be |
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Vulgar Fraction One Half |
0x00bd |
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Vulgar Fraction One Quarter |
0x00bc |
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Yen Sign |
0x00a5 |
DOT |
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OCR / MICR Special Characters
Character |
Character description |
Character value |
OCR-A Amount Of Check |
0x2447 | |
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OCR Belt Buckle |
0x2444 |
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OCR Bow Tie |
0x2445 |
OCR-A Branch Bank |
0x2446 | |
OCR Chair |
0x2441 | |
OCR-A Customer Account Number |
0x2449 | |
OCR-A Dash |
0x2448 | |
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OCR Double Backslash |
0x244a |
OCR Fork |
0x2442 | |
OCR Hook |
0x2440 | |
OCR Inverted Fork |
0x2443 |
For more information, refer to:
See Also:
Programming with LEADTOOLS OCR
Unlocking Character Recognition Features