• ABBYY OCR technology is “omni-font” and not trained on specific fonts.
• Never the less to get fast and high quality OCR results the OCR Engine “should be told” what font types are used in the documents. Below just a screen shot form the Recognition Server 3.0 Admin Console - all the settings are also available in the SDK API
  

ABBYY products support following printed text types:

• Normal - a common typographic type of text, such as Arial, Times New Roman or Courier.

• Typewriter - text typed on a typewriter.
  

• Matrix - text printed on a dot-matrix printer.
  

• Gothic
  Text printed with the Gothic type and used for Gothic recognition. It may look as follows:
  

• Index
  Special set of characters including only digits written in ZIP-code style. They look as follows:
  

• OCR_A
  A monospaced font designed specifically for OCR. It is largely used by banks, credit card companies and similar businesses. It may look as follows:
  

• OCR_B
  A font designed specifically for OCR. It may look as follows:
  

• MICR_E13B
  Special numeric characters printed in magnetic ink. MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) characters are found in a variety of places, including personal checks. They may look as follows:
  

• MICR_CMC7
  Special MICR barcode font (CMC-7). It is used on the bank checks. It may look as follows:
  

• Recognition with Pattern Training

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