A bar code is made up of a set of lines, which represents information about a product. The scanner must connect to a computer system to retrieve and store information about the item.

How to Use Android as a Barcode Scanner Input for a Computer. Your Android offers a number of helpful business tools that can effectively streamline your workday, including apps that read bar ...

Conventional bar code readers use either a laser beam for scanning or have a digital camera take a picture which is then recognized by the computer. Both methods limit the image-acquisition speed ...

It was a conspiracy theory not helped by the number IBM gave its bar-code readers: 3666. The bar code also became a potent symbol for anti-establishment artists and social critics of consumer society.

The BL-1300 ultracompact digital bar-code reader uses noise reduction and compensation functions that overcome reading performance difficulties of conventional analog circuits. The BL-1300 ...

But it was his invention of a "machine vision device" — the bar-code scanner — that made him rich and enabled him to endow the annual $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize for outstanding inventors.

The first bar code was used in 1974 to scan in a pack of gum. Now they're used for everything from flight check-ins to patient records and warehouse inventory. They've even been used to track bees ...

Billed as the first industrial touch screen bar code reader, the iVu Bar Code Reader (BCR) reads 11 industry-standard bar codes to facilitate advanced traceability—a critical strategy for ensuring ...

Scanner guns, the bar-code readers used in warehouses world-wide, are getting a makeover—reborn as special rings employees wear on their hands to modified smartphones—to help retainers fill a ...

The federal government last week said all drugs dispensed in hospitals must have bar codes. Now hospitals have three years to implement systems that will cost billions of dollars.