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'd probably use the same font that banks use for the routing numbers at the bottom of checks:

http://morovia.com/font/micr.asp

It was specifically designed to be unambiguously machine-readable.