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OCR-B Fonts

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
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