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

It really depends on the OCR engine considered.

For gocr, FreeMono is the best, see gocr documentation.

For tesseract, DejaVu-Serif works well, see https://superuser.com/a/1543382/280936

For abbyocr, verdana is good, see this comparison

See also this wrap-up: https://www.monperrus.net/martin/perfect-ocr-digital-data