Based on the original work from cfax in Python 2.7.
This version is a fork brought up to date and running on Python 3.
No pyenv included, but requirements are in requirements.txt
Royal Mail use what is known as the State Customer Code (or Customer Bar Code) to identify mail in automatic sorting machines.
The also use a variant of this known as Mailmark-C and Mailmark-L to encode sorting and OCR address data on mail, during sortation and delivery.
More information from Wikipedia
- Use Pip to install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt - Import the library:
from rm4sccdec import converter - Instantiate the class:
cbc_conv = converter.converter() - Decode your image:
decoded_data = cbc_conv.decode("myimage.png")
You need to specify the image you'd like to decode. In response, you will get the raw string data (including the checksum).