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:

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