Process and apparatus for treating postal items including reading of an improved bar code

摘要

The method involves storing a digital impression (Vid) characterizing a postal item (P) in correspondence with a bar code (CI) printed on a postal item, in a memory and reading the bar code. The correspondence between the bar code and the digital impression is utilized for pursuing a sorting of the item, if information in the bar code that is read on the postal item is not extracted completely. An independent claim is also included for a postal item sorting machine implementing a postal item processing method.