Understanding the barcode scanner
Barcodes come in a range of different sizes and types – even in different formats since you could consider a QR code to be a barcode. Both types of graphics are designed to encode data into a graphic that scanners can then retrieve and process.
Barcodes are used within our day-to-day lives, most commonly associated with shopping, with the goods being scanned and the scanning solution being able to immediately recognize what the goods are based on the code. Domestically, we see this also being used more and more within selling services such as Ziffit or SellitBack, where the user scans a barcode and gets immediate product feedback. The same applies to QR codes, which are now more commonly associated with web pages so that someone can scan the image and the associated page loads in the browser.
The Barcode scanner control supports the following barcodes:
- Universal Product Code A (UPC A)
- UPC E
- European Article Number 8 (EAN 8)
- CODE 39
- CODE 128
- Interleaved...
