Royal Mail Customer Barcode for Barcode4J
Today, I’ve uploaded a new barcode type for Barcode4J: the Royal Mail Customer Barcode (CBC). It’s a kind of “four-state” barcode. There are others like that, for example the Australian variant which uses Reed Solomon error correction instead of a simple checksum like Royal Mail. It should be easy to implement the Australian variant by just handling the checksum differently.
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Next on the list for Barcode4J is finishing the DataMatrix implementation I’ve started a while ago. Looks like I can get enough new features together to release Barcode4J 2.0 by the end of the year.