Types of barcodes & their description

barcode overview
There are many different types of barcode, often referred to as barcode symbologies. These have evolved in different places for different uses, but all have the common purpose of encoding a string of characters as a set of bars and spaces. The barcode you need will depend on what it is you need to [...]

Bar Code Symbologies

Bar codes are like a printed version of the Morse code. Different bar and space patterns are used to represent different characters. Sets of these patterns are grouped together to form a “symbology”. There are many types of bar code symbologies each having their own special characteristics and features. Most symbologies were designed to meet [...]

Benefits of Barcodes in Librariess

Collection Management
The use of barcodes helps to automate the process of tracking all your books, periodicals, music, movies and other lending materials. Barcodes are associated with item records in your Library Management Software and can hold critical information such as item number, call number, copy and volume numbers as well as associated codes used in [...]

Fudged registers in tribal schools so Thane introduces biometrics for kids

Worried over falling attendance in schools in its tribal areas and to check manipulation of registers by teachers, the Thane Zilla Parishad has turned to biometrics to ensure students mark themselves present with thumb impressions. This is a first in Maharashtra where the tribal areas are more infamous for malnutrition cases.
“We wanted to curb the [...]

Barcode History

The barcode history start at began of 1948. With Bernard Silver, a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, the president of a local food chain asking one of the deans to undertake research to develop a system to automatically read product information during checkout. Silver told his friend Norman Joseph Woodland about [...]