Patent ID: 7905392

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a processor configured to process data representative of an optically readable code; a detector configured to detect, from the data representative of the optically readable code, a symbol indicating that the code is a member of a set of codes including at least two optically readable codes; a collecting device configured to collect, from the data representative of the optically readable code, one or more collection symbols, wherein the collecting device is configured to collect, as the collection symbols from the at least two optically readable codes, alphanumerical letters or alphanumerical numbers, and to form a predetermined collection word from the alphanumerical letters or a predetermined collection sum from the alphanumerical numbers; and an assessing device configured to assess, on the basis of the collection symbols collected from at least two optically readable codes, if a predetermined collection criterion for completing the collections is fulfilled, by determining whether the collected alphanumerical letters form the collection word to be collected or whether the collected alphanumerical numbers, when summed up, form the collection sum to be collected.