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Punctuation, MICR, and Special OCR Characters
The following tables contain punctuation and miscellaneous characters.
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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 | |
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OCR-A Branch Bank | 0x2446 |
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OCR Chair | 0x2441 |
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OCR-A Customer Account Number | 0x2449 |
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OCR-A Dash | 0x2448 |
| OCR Double Backslash | 0x244a | |
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OCR Fork | 0x2442 |
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OCR Hook | 0x2440 |
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OCR Inverted Fork | 0x2443 |
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