In a circuit arrangement for scanning the character elements of characters, respectively occurring with a prescribed duration, at arbitrarily determinable points, in particular for the correction of teletypewriter characters in which a scanner scans the individual character elements with the aid of scanning pulses produced by a pulse generator, and in which the scanning pulses can be fed to a scanning circuit together with the individual character elements, the improvement therein comprising:
- an adder circuit;
- a pulse-controlled multi-stage register in the pulse generator including an output connected to its input via said adder circuit so that code words contained in the register can respectively be altered by a prescribed value with every pulse actuation;
- a store including an input connected to the output of said register, said store containing stored control signals in specific storage locations which can be actuated by the code words of the register so that with the actuation of the respective storage locations, beginning after the start of the character is determined, the control signals contained in said storage locations cause the production of output pulses from the output of said store, which output pulses are applied as the desired scanning pulses.