A bit of theory about barcodes It is difficult to imagine our life without barcodes, especially now that we meet them at every step. We go to the cinema and our tickets contain this “black and white drawing of bars”, we go to the supermarket and each product has information about it in ...
CODE 39 is the barcode developed by Intermec Corporation in 1975. Up to 43 characters including numbers, letters and some symbols can be included in the barcode: 0123456789 ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZ-.$/+%. Since letters can be handled, CODE 39 is indispensable in the industrial fields and used in...
Lately many countries have been digitizing payment processes. In other words, they convert existing payments to digital format. The most common way to automate payments is to use QR codes that are easily read by smartphones. The ability to encode a sufficiently large amount of information, high dama...
Recently many countries digitize payments. In other words, they convert existing payments to digital format. The most common way to automate payments is to use QR codes that are easily read by smartphones. The ability to encode a sufficiently large amount of information, high damage resistance, no n...
It's no longer a novelty to see a pixel QR barcode on the product packaging. Although it is more complicated than a regular bar code with stripes and it is undoubtedly more reliable. The technology of QR codes contains redundancy (duplication of information) and a checksum. Therefore, even with 30 p...
Until now the USA have been used two standards for barcode symbolizm for mail: POSTNET and PLANET. These standards make it possible to encode zip codes and services, mainly to sort and track mail. POSTNET is able to encode a five-digit zip code, a 4-digit plus-code and a 2-digit delivery point cod...
MaxiCode was first patented in 1992 as a code for high-speed conveyor sorting. The original name was the Dense Code, which was later changed to UPS. The last established name was MaxiCode. Maxicode is a two-dimensional barcode symbology used by United Parcel Service on packing lists for internation...
In this article we are going to introduce and explore a new type of barcode in FastReport.Net - Pharmacode. One can guess from the name of the barcode, that it is related to pharmaceutical industry. Pharmacode is a binary code, which was developed by a German company LAETUS GMBH specially for pharma...
For more than half a century used barcodes. But this popularity they received during the database development. Barcodes allows you to quickly identify the goods and to find information about it in the database. However, today's two-dimensional bar codes can contain all the information about the prod...
In the article "Using QR-codes in FastReport.Net" we have reviewed the popular 2D barcode formats. Today, I would like to talk about another popular format, which is also supported in FastReport.Net. This is an “Aztec-code”. The name of the code is associated with an ancient Indian tri...
Nowadays “QR-codes” are gaining their popularity. Unlike conventional barcodes, “QR-codes” allow you to encode more information in different formats. They are widely spread in trade, logistics and production. To recognize such codes one does not need a special laser reader. A...