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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
	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

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