Unlike “linear imagers” or scanners, digital or area imagers can read and process data from 1D and 2D bar codes. A diffuse light source boosts image-capture reliability. Bar codes, those ubiquitous ...

Christoph Wagner is the CEO of Scanbot SDK, a software development company specializing in data capture software for mobile and web apps. Considering how quickly retail is changing, it is astounding ...

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.

Anyone who has seen a barcode knows what they are instinctively. That irregular pattern of thick and thin lines across the back of a product or on a label is hard to mistake for anything else. With ...

Before the barcode was introduced, managing inventory from label to self to checkout was time consuming and manual. Not only was this process inefficient, but there ...

Mobile Tag, a France-based provider of 2D and 1D barcode marketing solutions, has secured 6.6 million euros in fresh funding. The round was led by S.E.B. Ventures and joined by previous backers XAnge ...

Special thanks to Marcella Michalek, a former summer associate at Foley, for her contributions to this article. When introduced nearly fifty years ago, the Universal Product Code (UPC)—the most ...