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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 fonts, but this seems pretty inefficient. I've tried the OCR* family of fonts, and various others such as Arial and Georgia. The tesseract tends to get confused with the OCR* fonts.
Is there any font specifically designed for tesseract, or any system font which works well with it?
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Size. Choose a font that's at least 16 pixels, or 12 points. If many of your users are older adults, consider using an even larger font size—19 pixels or 14 points. A small font size is more difficult to read, especially for users with limited literacy skills and older adults.
A sans serif type face such as Verdana, Calibri or Arial. Avoid underlining and use of italics. It is better to use bold to format documents.
Multiple studies, like the one conducted by Sarah Morrison and Jan Noyes of the University of Bristol, have found that Times New Roman is the best typeface for reading any document. Readers speed through material faster thanks to its simple letters.
Okay, a search on google comes up with this, a specific OCR font: OCR Font
Looks like it's a standard adopted in 1973.
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