Norwegian Giro and OCR-B Font

A General Interbank Recurring Order (giro) is a payment system that operates like a credit transfer.

The last line on the giro uses the OCR-B font. This is required by Bankenes Betalingssentral (BBS) for use with optical character recognition (OCR) when handling payments from customers. For more information, see the BBS website at BBS.NO

The OCR-B-10 BT font is generally available from software vendors. In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Norwegian sales documents use the OCR-B-10 BT font from BitStream Inc. has been used on the giro. For more information, see the BitStream website at Bitstream.

You can use any OCR-B font, but if other fonts are used, the sales documents must be updated by a Microsoft Certified Partner. Contact your partner for more information.

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Norwegian Sales Documents