Knowing how to read a barcode will definitely help. The first three digits on the UPC barcode are the numbers to look for to ...

This article delves into barcode reading, its advantages in document scanning, emerging trends in identity verification, and the inner workings of barcode scanning software in this domain.

Taking a page from the movie industry, he opted to use a photomultiplier tube along with a 500 Watt incandescent light bulb for reading the barcodes. In their 1949 patent application, they ...

In the fast-paced world of retail, barcode scanners have become indispensable tools that enhance the shopping experience.

Today, eLabNext announced that its customizable Digital Laboratory Platform can integrate with SPT Labtech’s compact, ...

Here’s the setup: a customer couldn’t read some barcodes sent from [Benji’s] company. Yet when the bad barcodes returned, they were fine. They looked fine, too. In a Twitter post ...

Barcode scanners read imprinted bar/matrix code symbologies. Barcodes, also known as universal product codes (UPCs), are machine-readable data representations consisting of a series of contrasting ...

It was while working as an electrical engineer with IBM that George Laurer fully developed the Universal Product Code (UPC), or barcode. He developed a scanner that could read codes digitally.