OCR-B fonts are requred in barcodes, finance or bank-oriented documents, or passports. Glyphs are defined in some standards like ANSI X3.49, ECMA-11, or JIS X 9001.
In Windows environment, you can use OCRB
font included in Microsoft Office. But you can't use it in RHEL environment, so you have to find some alternatives.
# | Licensee | Author | URL | Charset | License |
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1 | Aizuwakamatsu-shi | ??? | https://www.city.aizuwakamatsu.fukushima.jp/docs/2008021400265/ | 0-9 | CC-BY 4.0 |
2 | Norbert Schwarz | Norbert Schwarz | https://tsukurimashou.org/ocr.php.en | ASCII+some additional characters | unknown |
3 | Matthew Anderson | Matthew Anderson | https://web.archive.org/web/20190328165040/https://wehtt.am/ocr-b/ | Almost Latin-1, some missing characters | CC-BY 4.0 |
4 | Flashback | NIC co.ltd. | https://flashbackj.com/product/ocr-b | JIS X 9001 | proprietary, not allowed to use on servers |
5 | Adobe | Adrian Frutiger | https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/ocr-b | Latin-1 | proprietary |
6 | Microsoft | Monotype | https://learn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/typography/font-list/ocrb | Windows-1252 | proprietary |
7 | Hitachi Information & Telecommunication Engineering | ??? | https://www.hitachi-ite.co.jp/products/barcode/ocr-b_font2/index.html | Subset of ASCII | proprietary |
8 | WingArc1st | WingArc1st | https://cs.wingarc.com/ja/manual/000021305 | ??? | proprietary |