A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data on certain products. It can be read by optical scanners called barcode readers or scanned from an image by special software.

If you need a barcode scanner as in One you plug into other hardware. You need an OPTICAL (CMOS/CCD) based scanner. As opposed to LASER. (technically optical but not the industry term) ...

But optical recognition could beat out barcode scanners for products with flexible packaging, such as a plastic bag, since the barcode is easily obscured or bent, rendering it unreadable. Via ...

OptID originally targeted its technology to the automobile market. Then came 9/11. Jerusalem-based start-up OptIDtech - Optical Identification Technologies originally designed its electro-optic ...