Abstract: A casting mold for producing a casting having a front side and a rear side from a curable casting compound, including at least a first mold part shaping the front side and a second mold part shaping the rear side, the mold parts together delimiting a casting cavity. A slide device, provided on one of the mold parts, includes a slide portion that can be driven into the casting cavity and on which a detachable insert part is or can be arranged. The insert part is able to be moved abutting against the opposite mold part and is able to be embedded into the curing casting compound, and is detached from the slide portion when the latter is moved back.

Abstract: In a method for automatic character recognition, character strings marked by word start and word end are formed from the discrete characters calculated with the assistance of a character classifier. These character strings are checked with stored comparison strings of a context lexicon with respect to identity or similarity. The context lexicon is continuously updated by continuous read-in of strings containing no rejection characters, whereby the repeated read-in of identical strings is counted. Current strings are compared to the strings of the context lexicon and that string which is optimum with respect to similarity and frequency is selected for further evaluation. A correction provided with reference to the context comparison is only executed when the substitution transposition is probable based on the classifier characteristic for the characters under consideration.