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This invention is a mail address reading apparatus including a circuit for detecting image data of a mail, a circuit for detecting marks indicating the position of an address area from the image data, and a circuit for specifying the address area of the image data based on the position indicated by

This invention is a mail address reading apparatus including a circuit for detecting image data of a mail, a circuit for detecting marks indicating the position of an address area from the image data, and a circuit for specifying the address area of the image data based on the position indicated by the marks and reading the address of the image data in the address area. In this apparatus, the address area can be specified by the detected mark position without causing any problem even if image information other than the address is present and the address can be correctly read.

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A mail address reading apparatus for reading an address of a mail which has a mark formed in a machine code form, the mark indicating a position of the address area of the mail, the mail address reading apparatus comprising: means for deriving image data from the mail having an address area; means f

A mail address reading apparatus for reading an address of a mail which has a mark formed in a machine code form, the mark indicating a position of the address area of the mail, the mail address reading apparatus comprising: means for deriving image data from the mail having an address area; means for detecting the mark from the image data derived by the deriving means; and means for specifying the address area of the image data according to the position indicated by the mark and for reading the address for the image data of the specified area, wherein the mark has first and second marks, said specifying means includes first determining means for determining that the first mark is the upper left corner of the address area and second determining means for determining that the second mark is the upper right corner of the address area, the first and second marks are respectively constructed by two adjacent codes, one of the machine codes is a first machine code having a plurality of discrete black stripes extending in a vertical direction of an address of the mail and the other machine code is a second machine code having a plurality of black horizontal stripes extending in a horizontal direction and disposed adjacently on the right side of the first machine code.