C# Australia Post Reader Library
How to read Australia Post barcode image in C#.NET

C#.NET Australia Post Reading Overview

With RasterEdge .NET Barcode Add-on, developers and end-users are able to add advanced image barcode reader to your .NET applications. This component is very easy to use and designed specifically for Microsoft .NET. Runtime royalty free options are available for desktop or server deployments. RasterEdge .NET Image Barcode Add-on empowers developers and end-users to use our Image Barcode Scanner SDK for accurate and high-speed recognition of 1D and 2D barcodes from image and document management, indexing and archiving software applications.

This tutorial article mainly talks about how to use our barcode scanning component capabilities to read and recognize Australia Post barcode from images (eg: JPEG, JBIG2, TIFF, PNG, GIF & BMP) and documents (eg: PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint) by using C#.NET complete sample code.

We also provide developers and end-users in VB.NET with tutorial of image barcode recognition in VB.NET and image barcode creating in C#.NET.

Australia Post Reading Features in C#.NET

Add advanced Australia Post barcode recognition of images to your C# .NET applications

Integrated with DocImage with the ability of barcode pre-processing capabilities

Easy to use C# code to read Australia Post from JPEG, JBIG2, BMP, TIFF, PNG and GIF images

Read a single Australia Post from an image and multiple barcodes from an image

Read Australia Post then return the string value of barcode recognized

Scan Australia Post on PDF document pages in Visual C#.NET

C# codes to decode Australia Post from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents

Deploy as a single assembly alongside DocImage SDK for .NET dependencies

Steps to Read/Scan Data Matrix from Image/PDF/TIFF/Office File

Load an image or a document(PDF, TIFF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Get a Bitmap or BasePage used to decode or read barcode.

Set the barcode reader settings.

Call the following static method in BarcodeReader.cs to read or scan barcode from Bitmap or BasePage.

  public static Barcode[] ReadBarcodes(ReaderSettings settings, BasePage page)

  public static Barcode[] ReadBarcodes(ReaderSettings settings, Bitmap image)

The barcode information will be saved in the array of Barcode object. While, if you read barcodes information from the BasePage failed, you can try as follows:

  Convert BasePage to Bitmap with higher resolution by Calling method ConvertToImage(int resolution) in the BasePage.cs:

            //Convert page to bitmap.
            //The default resolution is 96, if youo set the resolution higher, it will be better to read or scan barcode.
            Bitmap bmp = page.ConvertToImage(192);

            //  read all barcodes in the page
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(settings, bmp);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Data: " + barcode.DataString);
            }

If you want to have a try, please refer to the following demo codes.

Note: When you get the error "Could not load file or assembly 'RasterEdge.Imaging.Basic' or any other assembly or one of its dependencies. An attempt to load a program with an incorrect format", please check your configure as follows:

       If you are using x64 libraries/dlls, Right click the project -> Properties -> Build -> Platform target: x64.

       If using x86, the platform target should be x86.

C# Code to Read Australia Post on Image

RasterEdge Barcode Reader Add-on provides fully-managed C# code to help users read Australia Post barcode from image. The barcode reading engine can be used to read a single barcode from an image and multiple barcodes from an image, or in conjunction with our DocTwain module to separate pages during barcode batch scanning. The supported barcode images are: JPEG, JBIG2, BMP, PNG, TIFF and GIF.

Add necessary references to your C#.NET project. Right-click the project and select "Add Reference..." to locate and add the following DLLs as project references;

  RasterEdge.Imaging.Basic.dll

  RasterEdge.XImage.BarcodeScanner.dll

Use corresponding namespaces;

  using RasterEdge.XImage.BarcodeScanner;

            Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(inputDirectory + "Sample_Barcode.png");
            //  config reader setting
            ReaderSettings settings = new ReaderSettings();
            //  define the type of barcode to scan
            settings.AddTypesToRead(BarcodeType.AustraliaPost);

            //  read all barcodes in the document
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(settings, bmp);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Data: " + barcode.DataString);
            }

C#: DLLs for Australia Post Barcode Scanning from Document(TIFF, PDF, Office)

In order to run the following demo codes reading Australia Post from document, the steps as follows are necessary.

Add references:

  RasterEdge.Imaging.Basic.dll

  RasterEdge.Imaging.Basic.Codec.dll

  RasterEdge.Imaging.Processing.dll

  RasterEdge.Imaging.Font.dll

  RasterEdge.Imaging.Drawing.dll

  RasterEdge.XImage.BarcodeScanner.dll

  RasterEdge.XImage.Raster.Core.dll

  RasterEdge.XImage.Raster.dll

Use corresponding namespaces;

  using RasterEdge.XImage.BarcodeScanner;

  using RasterEdge.Imaging.Basic;

C# Code to Decode Australia Post from TIFF Image File

With RasterEdge .NET Barcode Reader SDK, users are allowed to reading Australia Post not only from JPEG, JBIG2, BMP, PNG and GIF image files, but also Tiff images. This is the C# demo code for reading Australia Post from Tiff image file.

Add references(Extra):

  RasterEdge.XDoc.TIFF.dll

Use corresponding namespaces(Extra):

  using RasterEdge.XDoc.TIFF;

            // load TIFF document
            TIFFDocument doc = new TIFFDocument(inputDirectory + "Sample_Barcode.tif");

            // get the page you want to scan
            BasePage page = doc.GetPage(0);

            // set reader setting
            ReaderSettings setting = new ReaderSettings();

            // set type to read
            setting.AddTypesToRead(BarcodeType.AustraliaPost);

            // read barcode from tiff page
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(setting, page);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                // print the loaction of barcode on image
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.BoundingRectangle.X + "  " + barcode.BoundingRectangle.Y);

                // output barcode data onto screen 
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.DataString);
            }

C# Code to Read Australia Post on PDF

RasterEdge barcode reading library allows users to scan barcode from PDF document pages. However, before reading barcode from PDF document, users are supposed to convert PDF barcode page to barcode image first, and then decode Australia Post barcode. Following C# demo code will help you with an easier Australia barcode reading.

Add references(Extra):

  RasterEdge.XDoc.PDF.dll

Use corresponding namespaces(Extra):

  using RasterEdge.XDoc.PDF;

            // load PDF document
            PDFDocument doc = new PDFDocument(inputDirectory + "Sample_Barcode.pdf");

            // get the page you want to scan
            BasePage page = doc.GetPage(0);

            // set reader setting
            ReaderSettings setting = new ReaderSettings();

            // set type to read
            setting.AddTypesToRead(BarcodeType.AustraliaPost);

            // read barcode from PDF page
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(setting, page);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                // print the loaction of barcode on image
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.BoundingRectangle.X + "  " + barcode.BoundingRectangle.Y);

                // output barcode data onto screen 
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.DataString);
            }

C# Code to Read Australia Post on Word

Like reading Australia Post barcode from PDF document, users who want to decode Australia Post barcode from Word document also need to convert Word barcode pages into images. Please see below detailed C# snippet code.

Add references(Extra):

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Word.dll

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Office.Inner.Common.dll

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Office.Inner.Office03.dll

Use corresponding namespaces(Extra):

  using RasterEdge.XDoc.Word;

            // load Word document
            DOCXDocument doc = new DOCXDocument(inputDirectory + "Sample_Barcode.docx");

            // get the page you want to scan
            BasePage page = doc.GetPage(0);

            // set reader setting
            ReaderSettings setting = new ReaderSettings();

            // set type to read
            setting.AddTypesToRead(BarcodeType.AustraliaPost);

            // read barcode from Word page
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(setting, page);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                // print the loaction of barcode on image
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.BoundingRectangle.X + "  " + barcode.BoundingRectangle.Y);

                // output barcode data onto screen 
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.DataString);
            }

C# Code to Recognize Australia Post from Excel

All Australia Post barcode images can be accurately decoded from specific Excel sheet using following sample C# code.

Add references(Extra):

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Excel.dll

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Office.Inner.Common.dll

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Office.Inner.Office03.dll

Use corresponding namespaces(Extra):

  using RasterEdge.XDoc.Excel;

            // load Excel document
            XLSXDocument doc = new XLSXDocument(inputDirectory + "Sample_Barcode.xlsx");

            // get the page you want to scan
            BasePage page = doc.GetPage(0);

            // set reader setting
            ReaderSettings setting = new ReaderSettings();

            // set type to read
            setting.AddTypesToRead(BarcodeType.AustraliaPost);

            // read barcode from Excel page
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(setting, page);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                // print the loaction of barcode on image
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.BoundingRectangle.X + "  " + barcode.BoundingRectangle.Y);

                // output barcode data onto screen 
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.DataString);
            }

C# Code to Decode Australia Post from PowerPoint

Sample C# code to decode all Australia Post barcodes included in the source PowerPoint slide.

Add references(Extra):

  RasterEdge.XDoc.PowerPoint.dll

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Office.Inner.Common.dll

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Office.Inner.Office03.dll

Use corresponding namespaces(Extra):

  using RasterEdge.XDoc.PowerPoint;

            // load PowerPoint document
            PPTXDocument doc = new PPTXDocument(inputDirectory + "Sample_Barcode.pptx");

            // get the page you want to scan
            BasePage page = doc.GetPage(0);

            // set reader setting
            ReaderSettings setting = new ReaderSettings();

            // set type to read
            setting.AddTypesToRead(BarcodeType.AustraliaPost);

            // read barcode from PowerPoint page
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(setting, page);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                // print the loaction of barcode on image
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.BoundingRectangle.X + "  " + barcode.BoundingRectangle.Y);

                // output barcode data onto screen 
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.DataString);
            }