ATS 5084-2003

1 - ATS 5084-2003 ISO/TS ELECTRONIC IMAGING-FORMS DESIGN OPTIMISATION FOR ELECTRONIC IMAGE MANAGEMENT
4 - PREFACE
5 - CONTENTS
6 - INTRODUCTION
7 - 1 Scope
7 - 2 Normative references
7 - 3 Terms and definitions
7 - 3.1 alphanumeric
7 - 3.2 dropout ink
8 - 3.3 font
8 - 3.4 magnetic ink character recognition MICR
8 - 3.5 character pitch
8 - 3.6 recognition zone
8 - 3.7 optical mark recognition OMR
8 - 4 Layout and design
8 - 4.1 General
8 - 4.2 Data storage requirement
8 - 4.3 Page format
9 - 4.4 Type
9 - 4.4.1 Typeface
9 - 4.4.2 Symbols
9 - 4.4.3 Spacing
9 - 4.4.4 Character pitch
10 - 4.4.5 Character size
10 - 4.4.6 Weight
10 - 4.4.7 Type family
10 - 4.5 Machine printed stylized information
10 - 4.5.1 General
10 - 4.5.2 OCR fonts
11 - 4.5.3 MICR fonts
11 - 4.5.4 Bar codes
12 - 4.6 Hand-printed information
12 - 4.7 Location or registration marks
13 - 4.8 Highlighting
13 - 4.9 Printed rules
13 - 5 User guidance
13 - 5.1 Handwritten entries
14 - 5.2 Printed instructions
14 - 5.3 Form features
15 - 5.4 Optical mark recognition (OMR)
15 - 6 Post-printing features
15 - 6.1 Perforations
15 - 6.2 Holes
16 - 6.3 Die-cuts
17 - 6.4 Folds
17 - 6.5 Multi-part forms
17 - 6.6 Padding
17 - 6.7 Carbonizing
17 - 7 Materials
17 - 7.1 Paper quality
17 - 7.1.1 General
17 - 7.1.2 Paper weight/thickness
18 - 7.1.3 Paper opacity
18 - 7.1.4 Paper finish
18 - 7.1.5 Paper colour
18 - 7.1.6 Paper life expectancy requirements
18 - 7.2 Printing ink
18 - 8 Form testing
18 - 9 New technology

Provides guidance for the design of forms to be used for electronic capture of information featuring colour dropouts, type fonts, printing screen tints, line width, data storage and other interrelated features.

This Technical Specification provides guidelines for the design of forms to be completed by users and scanned for processing by electronic image management (EIM) systems. These guidelines are limited to forms using roman characters.

First published as ATS 5084-2003.