The ocr package L

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The ocr package

L

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_{TEX support for the OCR fonts (Optical Chatacter Recognition}

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version 1.0 September 22, 2006

Palle Jørgensen

1 Introduction

The ocr package provides support for the OCR fonts. The OCR fonts are already installed on many systems, this is only support for using the OCR fonts with LA_TEX.

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2 Using the ocr package

2.1 Package options

The ocr package has the following options

Option: Effect: Example Comments: ocr-a Selects the OCR

font to be OCR-A 123 ocr-b Selects the OCR

font to be OCR-B

123 Default ocr-b-outline Selects the OCR

font to be an out-line of OCR-B

123 ocr-b-negative Selects the OCR

font to be a neg-ative OCR-B

123 ocr-b-sharp Selects the OCR

font to be a “sharp” OCR-B

123 The sharp fonts are not con-structed properly. Use with care ocr-b-sharp-negative Selects the OCR

font to be a negative “sharp” OCR-B

123 The sharp fonts are not con-structed properly. Use with care

2.2 Commands

If you want some text typeset with the selected OCR font for a short text you can use the command \ocr; ie. \ocr{cheese}.

It is possible to use the command \ocrfamily but this command also changes the current fontencoding; use with caution. . .

2.2.1 Negative fonts

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3 Source of the files in the OCR bundle

3.1 ocr.sty

\ P r o v i d e s P a c k a g e { o c r } [ 2 0 0 6 / 0 9 / 1 8 LaTeX s u p p o r t f o r t h e v a r i o u s OCR f o n t s . C r e a t e d by P a l l e J o r g e n s e n , h a m s e l v @ p a l l e j . dk ] \ R e q u i r e P a c k a g e { i f t h e n } \ def \ o c r d e f a u l t { o c r b } \ D e c l a r e O p t i o n { o c r −a }{\ def \ o c r d e f a u l t { o c r a }} \ D e c l a r e O p t i o n { o c a }{\ def \ o c r d e f a u l t { o c a }%

\ PackageWarning { o c r }{The OCA f o n t s a r e buggy . Use t h e ’ o c r −a ’ o p t i o n t o g e t p r o p e r OCR−A f o n t s .^^ J }} \ D e c l a r e O p t i o n { o c r −b }{\ def \ o c r d e f a u l t { o c r b }} \ D e c l a r e O p t i o n { o c r −b−o u t l i n e }{\ def \ o c r d e f a u l t { o c r b o }} \ D e c l a r e O p t i o n { o c r −b−n e g a t i v e }{\ def \ o c r d e f a u l t { o c r b n }} \ D e c l a r e O p t i o n { o c r −b−s h a r p }{\ def \ o c r d e f a u l t { o c r b s }%

\ PackageWarning { o c r }{The s h a r p OCR−B f o n t s a r e buggy . Use w i t h c a r e .^^ J }}

\ D e c l a r e O p t i o n { o c r −b−sharp−n e g a t i v e }{\ def \ o c r d e f a u l t { o c r b n s }%

\ PackageWarning { o c r }{The s h a r p OCR−B f o n t s a r e buggy . Use w i t h c a r e .^^ J }}

\ P r o c e s s O p t i o n s ∗

\ def \ o c r f a m i l y {\ fontencoding {OT1}\ fontfamily {\ o c r d e f a u l t }\ s e l e c t f o n t } \ DeclareTextFontCommand {\ o c r }{\ o c r f a m i l y } \ def \ o c r n e g f a m i l y {% \ i f t h e n e l s e {\ e q u a l {\ o c r d e f a u l t }{ o c r b }}{}{% \ PackageWarning { o c r }{% Using t h e ’ n e g a t i v e OCR−B ’ f o n t s w i t h o u t u s i n g t h e \ MessageBreak

OCR−B f o n t s may g i v e a funny r e s u l t .^^ J }} \ fontencoding {OT1}\ fontfamily { o c r b n }\ s e l e c t f o n t } \ def \ o c r s @ n e g f a m i l y {%

\ i f t h e n e l s e {\ e q u a l {\ o c r d e f a u l t }{ o c r b s }}{}{ \ PackageWarning { o c r }{%

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