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Magnetic Ink Character Recognition Code (MICR Code) is a character-recognition technology used mainly by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents. The MICR encoding, called the ''MICR line'', is at the bottom of cheques and other vouchers and typically includes the document-type indicator, bank code, bank account number, cheque number, cheque amount, and a control indicator. The technology allows MICR readers to scan and read the information directly into a data-collection device. Unlike barcodes and similar technologies, MICR characters can be read easily by humans. The MICR E-13B font has been adopted as the international standard in ISO 1004:1995,〔 〕 but the CMC-7 font is widely used in Europe, Brazil and Mexico. == Fonts == There are two major MICR fonts in use: E-13B and CMC-7. E-13B has a 14 character set,〔(MICR E13B character set )〕 while CMC-7 has 15—the 10 numeric characters, plus control characters. The MICR E-13B font is the standard in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries. (The "13" in the font's name comes from the 0.013-inch grid used to design it.〔("The History of the Check and Standardization Efforts" )〕) 0.013-inch is one typographic point. Besides decimal digits, it also contains the following symbols: ⑆ (transit: used to delimit a bank branch routing transit number), ⑇ (amount: used to delimit a transaction amount), ⑈ (on-us: used to delimit a customer account number), and ⑉ (dash: used to delimit parts of numbers—e.g., routing numbers or account numbers). Major European countries, including France and Italy, and others like Brazil and Mexico use the CMC-7 font, developed by Groupe Bull in 1957. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Magnetic ink character recognition」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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