# Cell Rectangle Width Type

By default an OCRMax tool will generate cell rectangles with approximately the same width across the string, regardless of the width of the character's mark rectangle. For many character strings this works well, but for some strings it can cause a thin character preceded by a space to be segmented as a single character, as shown in the following figure:

To have the tool properly separate the space character from the number "1" in this string, specify a Cell Rectangle Width Type (CellRectangleWidthType) of Proportional. The following figure shows how the string should be segmented: