It seems to be impossible to find a version of OCR-B, the typeface, that actually is reliably monospaced, meaning that 10 characters, regardless of which characters, always take up the exact same space.
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MarjorieRreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer whenever is see 2.54mm mentioned in a spec. I know it was written by idiots (probably American).
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Petr Tesarikreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer But you know how this is usually solved in practice, don't you?
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The Bellmanreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer I am interested to see how you solve this. My initial thoughts were all wrong and it’s an interesting problem that probably did not exist when the standard was created. The phrasing smells of a time before laser printers.
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Gareth Kitchenreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by@jwildeboer I sense that the spec was devised in the era of daisy wheels, golfballs and line printers.
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Xavier «X» Santolaria :verified_paw: :donor:replied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer Working on your passports counterfeiting skills?
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@jwildeboer Practice makes perfect.
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Matija Šukljereplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer, if you come up with a whole tutorial, I would be quite interested.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Matija Šuklje last edited by
@hook @0x58 my last two blog posts already dive deep into the topic. Including a link to a MRZ (Machine Readable Zone) generator I made: https://jan.wildeboer.net
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Matija Šukljereplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer, ah, sweet, thanks!
I guess I really should subscribe (again) to your blog’s RSS/Atom feed.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Matija Šuklje last edited by
@hook @0x58 And just for the fun of it, I made MRZ generators for all official travel document sizes:
TD1 (credit card): https://jan.wildeboer.net/assets/TD1MRZ.html
TD2 (A7 size): https://jan.wildeboer.net/assets/TD2MRZ.html
TD3 (B7 size for passports): https://jan.wildeboer.net/assets/TD3MRZ.html
