News about Barcode Scanners
[11/01/2011] Barcode Advancements
The barcode scanners have been around for years and used in grocery stores, warehouses, industrial environments, hospitals, and many other establishments. They are capable of reading labels and transforming the coded information to a human-readable data. The readers have evolved significantly in the past few years, but so have the labels and now they are divided into first, second, and third generation labels, where the latest technologies have allowed the usage of 2D barcodes, capable of storing far more information. The fast development of the mobile technology has also allowed certain cell phones to be used as barcode readers just with the help of a software program, which could be downloaded and installed on the phone’s operating system in a matter of minutes.
The popularity of the barcode scanners has led to the introduction of better and more sophisticated software as well and many developers offer programs that facilitate bar code making and labeling, point of sale software, and mobile barcode reading programs. All these programs serve different purposes, target different clients with specific needs, and are capable of working with linear, standard 2D, RFID, and GS1 Databar (RSS) bar codes. Some of the programs are capable of accurately reading 20 labels, while others work with more than 100. Their functionality is further improved by their capability of working with databases, API programming interfaces, and support for ASCII and Excel. Most of these programs come with built-in design tools, which allow the users to create a number of different labels, and such tools come with number of fonts, lines, curves, and shapes, as well as support for images, aligned objects, and text boxes.
The barcodes are always improving and newer technologies and better readers are launched on the market constantly, but the wild variety presents a number of problems as well. Certain bar codes can be only read by specific scanners and the need of standardization is recognized, but for a number of reasons the process is slow. The wide variety of different 1D and 2D labels also presents a number of other issues such as possible copyright infringement, which makes standardization even more difficult.
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