To optimise logistics, production and financial management in a SAP R/3 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The Polish writing heads for machines were produced at the Paris branch of IBM. Polonization of the OCR-B (Optical Character Recognition font B) typeface for automatic reading in optical readers, adopted by the ECMA (European Computer. Barcode & OCR Font Package (for SAP R/3). The devices worked from 1975 in the Dom Słowa (The House of Word) printing house in Warsaw, where they recognized typescripts made on IBM Composer machines and encoded the Linotron 505TC control tape - the third generation phototypesetter. OCR-B was the working letter of the first CTM-02 and CTM-03 typewritten text readers built by PAS cyberneticists. Use this print type when configuring a RecoStar of FineReader recognition profile to recognize OCR-B printed text. There is also an open source font Inconsolata, which is influenced by Consolas. Consolas is included in several Microsoft products.
It is a monospaced typeface like OCR-A, but easier to read for humans. The final version, approved by the Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Adrian Frutiger, was made by Elżbieta Krużyńska. After trying a lot of different fonts and OCR engines I tend to get the best results using Consolas.
Leon Urbański and Helena Nowak-Mroczek worked on the typeface during the initial stage. OCR-A is a font created in 1968, in the early days of computer optical character recognition, when there was a need for a font that could be recognized not. The glyphs of Polish letters were drawn at the Center of Printing Scripts and tested at the Institute of Organization and Management of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) during the construction of recognition devices. OCR-B was designed in Paris by Adrian Frutiger. Polonization of the OCR-B (Optical Character Recognition – font B) typeface for automatic reading in optical readers, adopted by the ECMA (European Computer Manufactures Association).