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

 

(UNICODE)

DOT

RER

HNR

MAT

Apostrophe-Quote

0x0027

DOT

RER

 

 

Closing Curly Bracket

0x007d

DOT

RER

 

 

Closing Parenthesis

0x0029

DOT

RER

 

 

Closing Square Bracket

0x005d

DOT

RER

 

 

Colon

0x003a

DOT

RER

 

 

Comma

0x002c

DOT

RER

HNR

OCRA, OCRB

Double Quotation Mark Left

0x201c

 

 

 

 

Double Quotation Mark Right

0x201d

 

 

 

 

Em dash

0x2014

 

 

 

 

En dash

0x2013

 

 

 

 

Exclamation Mark

0x0021

DOT

RER

 

 

Hyphen-Minus

0x002d

DOT

RER

HNR

 

Inverted Exclamation Mark

0x00a1

DOT

 

 

 

Inverted Question Mark

0x00bf

DOT

 

 

 

Left Single Quotation Mark

0x2018

 

 

 

 

Right Single Quotation Mark

0x2019

 

 

 

 

Low Dbl. Comma Quot. Mark

0x201e

 

 

 

 

Low Single Comma Quot. Mark

0x201a

 

 

 

 

Opening Curly Bracket

0x007b

DOT

RER

 

 

Opening Parenthesis

0x0028

DOT

RER

 

 

Opening Square Bracket

0x005b

DOT

RER

 

 

Period (full-stop)

0x002e

DOT

RER

HNR

All MAT

Question Mark

0x003f

DOT

RER

 

 

Quotation Mark

0x0022

DOT

RER

 

 

Semicolon

0x003b

DOT

RER

 

 

Left Pointing Single Guillemet

0x2039

 

 

 

 

Right Pointing Single Guillemet

0x203a

 

 

 

 

Soft Hyphen

0x20ad

 

 

 

 

Spacing Grave

0x0060

DOT

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS CHARACTERS

Character description

Character value

Recognize method

 

(UNICODE)

DOT

RER

HNR

MAT

Acute

0x00b4

 

 

 

 

Ampersand

0x0026

DOT

RER

 

 

Asterisk

0x002a

DOT

RER

 

OCRA

Backslash

0x005c

DOT

RER

 

OCRA

Bullet

0x2022

 

 

 

 

Broken Bar

0x00a6

 

 

 

 

Cedilla

0x00b8

 

 

 

 

Cent Sign

0x00a2

DOT

 

 

 

Circumflex

0x02c6

 

 

 

 

Commercial At

0x0040

DOT

RER

 

MICR

Copyright Sign

0x00a9

 

 

 

 

Currency Sign

0x00a4

 

 

 

 

Dagger

0x2020

 

 

 

 

Degree Sign

0x00b0

 

 

 

 

Diaresis

0x00a8

 

 

 

 

Dollar Sign

0x0024

DOT

RER

 

OCRA

Double Dagger

0x2021

 

 

 

 

Equals Sign

0x003d

DOT

RER

 

 

Euro Sign

0x20ac

 

 

 

 

Greater-Than Sign

0x003e

DOT

RER

 

OCRA, OCRB

Horizontal Ellipsis

0x2026

 

 

 

 

Left Pointing Guillemet

0x00ab

DOT

 

 

 

Less-Than Sign

0x003c

DOT

RER

 

OCRA, OCRB

Macron

0x00af

 

 

 

 

Math Division Sign

0x00f7

 

 

 

 

Math Multipication Sign

0x00d7

 

 

 

 

Micron

0x00b5

 

 

 

 

Midddle Dot

0x00b7

 

 

 

 

Not Sign

0x00ac

 

 

 

 

Number Sign

0x0023

DOT

RER

 

MICR

Per Mille Sign

0x2030

 

 

 

 

Percent Sign

0x0025

DOT

RER

 

 

Pilcrow Sign

0x00b6

 

 

 

 

Plus Sign

0x002b

DOT

RER

HNR

OCRA, OCRB

Plus-OR-Minus Sign

0x00b1

DOT

 

 

 

Pound Sign

0x00a3

DOT

 

 

 

Registered Trade Mark Sign

0x00ae

 

 

 

 

Right Pointing Guillemet

0x00bb

DOT

 

 

 

Section Sign

0x00a7

DOT

 

 

 

Slash

0x002f

DOT

RER

 

OCRA, OCRB

Sml. Script F

0x0192

 

 

 

 

Sml. Tilde

0x02dc

 

 

 

 

Space

0x0020

DOT

RER

HNR

all MAT

Spacing Circumflex

0x005e

DOT

 

 

 

Spacing Underscore

0x005f

DOT

RER

 

 

Superscript One

0x00b9

 

 

 

 

Superscript Three

0x00b3

 

 

 

 

Superscript Two

0x00b2

 

 

 

 

Tilde

0x007e

DOT

 

 

 

Trade Mark Sign

0x2122

 

 

 

 

Vertical Bar

0x007c

DOT

RER

 

 

Vulgar Fraction Three Quarter

0x00be

 

 

 

 

Vulgar Fraction One Half

0x00bd

 

 

 

 

Vulgar Fraction One Quarter

0x00bc

 

 

 

 

Yen Sign

0x00a5

DOT

 

 

 

OCR / MICR Special Characters

Character

Character description

Character value

OCR-A Amount Of Check

0x2447

 

OCR Belt Buckle

0x2444

 

OCR Bow Tie

0x2445

OCR-A Branch Bank

0x2446

OCR Chair

0x2441

OCR-A Customer Account Number

0x2449

OCR-A Dash

0x2448

 

OCR Double Backslash

0x244a

OCR Fork

0x2442

OCR Hook

0x2440

OCR Inverted Fork

0x2443

For more information, refer to:

Languages and Dictionaries

Working with Languages

Working with Dictionaries

LANGIDS

DOC2_LANGIDS

See Also:

Programming with LEADTOOLS OCR

Unlocking Character Recognition Features

An Overview of Recognition Modules

Demo Programs

Tutorials