Tool to decode/encode a postal code with a French LaPoste barcode. The french postal barcode is a code using bars and dots, used to digitally read postcodes when sorting mail with processing machines from the french LaPoste company.
French Postal Barcode - dCode
Tag(s) : Cryptography, Substitution Cipher
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French Postal Barcode
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French Postal Barcode Decoder
French Postal Barcode Encoder
Tool to decode/encode a postal code with a French LaPoste barcode. The french postal barcode is a code using bars and dots, used to digitally read postcodes when sorting mail with processing machines from the french LaPoste company.
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How to encrypt a French Postal Barcode?
The French postal barcode uses bars and dots (or space), which are read from right to left. It encodes the numbers for the Postal/ZIP code or code Cedex (routing code) and (sometimes) the street number (distribution code).
The code is a substitution using this table :
| 0 | ..|||| |
| 1 | .|.||| |
| 2 | .||.|| |
| 3 | .|||.| |
| 4 | |..||| |
| 5 | |.|.|| |
| 6 | |.||.| |
| 7 | ||..|| |
| 8 | ||.|.| |
| 9 | |||..| |
Example: 75001 is coded .|.||| ..|||| ..|||| |.|.|| ||..||
How to decrypt a French Postal Barcode?
To decode, substitute the vertical bars by the corresponding numbers and read from right to left.
Example: .|||.| .||.|| .|.||| is read 123
How to recognize a French Postal Barcode?
The message consists of sticks and dots (or spaces) by groups of 6: 4 lines and 2 dots, for a french postal code it is at least 30 chars in total.
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