BS 6616:1986

Committees responsible
Foreword
Section 1 - General
1 Scope
2 Definitions
3 Classification
Section 2 - Paper quality
4 Paper opacity
5 Reflectance factor Ro
6 Freedom from dirt
Section 3 - Print quality
7 Print quality characteristics
Section 4 - Character positioning
8 All character sets
9 Character sets OCR-A and OCR-B
Appendix A - Guidance on paper properties
Appendix B - Method for measurement of reflectance factor Ro
Appendix C - Methods for determining the quality of
             print for optical character recognition
Appendix D - Method for visual checking of print quality
             of character sets OCR-A and OCR-B
Appendix E - Method for construction of a COL gauge for
             character sets OCR-A and OCR-B
Publications referred to

Requirements for the optical properties of paper, print quality, and character positioning in printed matter for automatic optical character recognition using the character sets OCR-A, OCR-B and E13 B.