Japanese postal barcode

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* [http://barcode.tec-it.com/barcode-generator.aspx?group=BCGroup_Postal&barcode=JapanesePostal Barcode generator: Japanese postal bar code]
 
* [http://barcode.tec-it.com/barcode-generator.aspx?group=BCGroup_Postal&barcode=JapanesePostal Barcode generator: Japanese postal bar code]
 
** [http://www.tec-it.com/download/PDF/Barcode_Reference_EN.pdf TEC-IT Reference] (Covers general information and address storage)
 
** [http://www.tec-it.com/download/PDF/Barcode_Reference_EN.pdf TEC-IT Reference] (Covers general information and address storage)
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* [https://github.com/pinekta/php-jp-customer-barcode-generator Barcode generator], in PHP
  
 
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Latest revision as of 17:16, 4 November 2020

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Name Japanese postal barcode
Ontology

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The Japanese postal barcode is used in mail sorting for Japan. It encodes an 7-digit postal/zip code plus an optional alphanumeric address code. The symbology allows the coding of the digits 0-9, letters A-Z, and hyphen. The address code is simply the alphanumeric portion of a street address.

This sort of bar code system is regarded as "four-state" because there are four types of bars, classified by presence of ascenders and/or descenders. This sort of system is transcribable using DAFT notation. These sorts of bar codes are used by a number of countries in their postal systems, though the specific symbologies by which they encode characters can vary.

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The start and end bars are FD and DF. Each character takes up three bars. Padding with TDA is performed to fill 20 chars.

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