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Formats are specified by means of extended regular expressions.

Additions to standard regular expressions

Extended regular expressions include the following additions:
  1. Special brackets [% and %]. Characters inside the brackets are supplemented with common OCR errors. For example, [%S%] may allow S, $, and 5.
  2. Special words inside [%...%] for common character sets and OCR errors:
    • LETTERS — Capital Latin letters and characters commonly recognized as capital Latin letters.
    • DIGITS — Digits and characters commonly recognized as digits.
    • LETTERSANDDIGITS — Capital Latin letters, digits, and characters commonly recognized as capital Latin letters and digits.
For example, [%DIGITS%]{9} specifies nine consecutive digits or common OCR errors for digits, such as OI234Sb7B9.