IMAGING ENGINE AND TECHNIQUES FOR READING POSTAL CODES

摘要

A method and apparatus for identifying and reading a postal code (12) with ascender bars (4), descender bars (5), full bars (6), and clock bars (7), includes a hand held code reader (10). An image of the postal code is reprocessed by determining the orientation and position within an image and then is read and decoded. The system is capable of discriminating between different formats of code patterns.