Question

I am trying to decode UPS Maxicode in java and getting the following result :

[)>02967780900008400031Z49675335UPSN330W9107$FL:X-/,UY
JKY -M,R('3(PH6W )
0.SXI#Z%H(J

It gives the house number and street name at the end on the article link below:

http://www.idautomation.com/maxicodefaq.html#Reading-MaxiCode

I have not been able to figure out if the symbols at the end are encrypted or confidential information as i read in one of the topics on stack overflow.

If anyone has any ideas regarding this it will be great help.

Thank you in advance 🙂

Answer 1

The data is compressed and requires a DLL from UPS to decode. Maxicode only holds about 100 characters so compression is needed to encode more shipping data.

See Alternate Topic for more information.