1. A method of determining values of a set of characters comprising: magnetically reading a predetermined set of characters to create magnetic character data; optically reading the predetermined set of characters to create optical character data; analyzing the magnetic character data with a controller to identify a magnetic character value for each character of the set of characters and assigning a magnetic character certainty parameter to each character; analyzing the optical character data with the controller to identify an optical character value for each character of the set of characters and assigning an optical character certainty parameter to each character; and assigning a final character value to each character of the set of characters with the controller in response to the magnetic character values, the magnetic character certainty parameters, the optical character values and the optical character certainty parameters.