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A third example is reading data strings with a specific syntax. Think for ex-
ample of the serial numbers found on product labels. Such character strings go
beyond the numeric symbols, but never contain the full alphabetic range of char-
acters.
The reason for limiting the character set is that you keep excluding recognition
errors as the confusion between '5' and "S", '0' and "O" etc. and that you make
the recognition somewhat faster.
However, the IRISPen does not recognize all characters which are displayed
in the output subset window! Some special characters, like © and ®, are not
recognized by the IRISPen but can be used in character and table frame conver-
sions, in starting and ending codes and be inserted with pen button clicks.
The window below tells you exactly which symbols can and cannot be recog-
nized - the highlighted symbols are not recognized by the IRISPen.
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