Next year will mark 50 years since the first product barcode was scanned. The simple system of lines, spaces, and numbers has helped track inventory and scan physical product prices. But what if it ...

Barcode imagers (also known as digital or area imagers) read both 1D and 2D barcodes using sensors that have rows of cells. They’re proliferating with 2D barcodes that embed more information than ...

On October 7th, 1952, the first patent for a "Classifying Apparatus and Method" was issued. This eventually developed into the barcodes we know today. I mostly associated barcodes with the UPC ...

Supply-chain standards organization GS1 US has released a Barcode Capabilities Test Kit to help retailers gauge their readiness to shift from linear Universal Product Codes (UPCs) to data-rich 2D ...

Datalogic has introduced the Gryphon 4600 series handheld barcode scanner, which is designed for reading 1D and 2D barcodes ...

June 26, 1974 was an historical milestone that changed the shopping experience: That’s the date the first item was ever scanned with a barcode. Juicy Fruit gum at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio, became ...

International standards organisation GS1 is preparing to transition to 2D barcodes and away from the 1D barcode format. Lee Metters, Group Business Development Director, and James Cutforth, Global ...

Featured in many sci-fi stories as a quicker, more efficient way to record and transfer information, barcodes are both extremely commonplace today, and still amazingly poorly understood by many.

First, a quick review: Two-dimensional barcodes can be encoded with various data (phone numbers, text, photos, URLs, etc.) and "scanned" using the camera on a mobile phone. Think of them as print ...