Title :
Error-correcting coding for banking document bar codes
Author :
Redinbo, R. ; Hemmann, J.
Author_Institution :
University of California, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering/Computer Science, Davis, USA
Abstract :
Bar codes, used for the automatic processing of financial payment records, may be protected by extended Reed-Solomon codes over prime field alphabets. New decoding methods which handle both random and erasure errors are presented.
Keywords :
bank data processing; decoding; error correction codes; automatic processing; banking document bar codes; decoding methods; erasure errors; extended Reed-Solomon codes; financial payment records; prime field alphabets; random errors;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19860185