What is the ideal font for OCR?

Question

Does anybody have any experience with different fonts for OCR? I am generating an ID then trying to scan it with tesseract. At the moment I am just T&E\'n different font

Answer 1

I find that Calibri works the best for me. We use OCR software daily in an automated system and after testing dozens of fonts (including some OCR specific ones) that Calibri is consistently the best.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Okay, a search on google comes up with this, a specific OCR font: OCR Font

Looks like it's a standard adopted in 1973.