Tony Smith
>> What is the "standard" font used for the human-readable
>> information on barcodes? For example, on this one:
>>
>> http://www.barcode-us.com/images/Supp%20Desk/coupon.GIF
>>
>
>
> These is no standard font, beyond being legible.

I understand, but one font seems to be more prevalent than others ("de 
facto" standard, so to speak).

> Look around and you'll see
> some that look like they came off a 1980's ere dot matrix.  After all,
> they're meant to machine readable.
>
> There are specs on size, whitespace & the like -
> http://www.gs1au.org/assets/documents/info/technical/tfs_dimensions_ean13.pd
> f (only 50k).
>
> This one reccomends the font to be OCR-B.

Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/ocrb.php

Vitaliy 

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