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2. Norman Joseph Woodland - Wikipedia

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   Co-inventor of the barcode. Norman Joseph Woodland (September 6, 1921 – December 9, 2012) was an American inventor and engineer, best known as one of the inventors of the barcode, for which he received a patent in October 1952. [1] [2] Later, employed by IBM, he developed the format which became the ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) of ...

3. Zebra Technologies - Wikipedia

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   Zebra Technologies Corporation is an American mobile computing company specializing in technology used to sense, analyze, and act in real time. [2] The company manufactures and sells marking, tracking, and computer printing technologies. Its products include mobile computers and tablets, software, thermal barcode label and receipt printers ...

4. QR code - Wikipedia

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   The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3:1:1) in black ...

5. Interleaved 2 of 5 - Wikipedia

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   Interleaved 2 of 5 ( ITF) is a continuous two-width barcode symbology encoding digits. It is used commercially on 135 film, for ITF-14 barcodes, and on cartons of some products, while the products inside are labeled with UPC or EAN . ITF encodes pairs of digits; the first digit is encoded in the five bars (or black lines), while the second ...

6. Barcode technology in healthcare - Wikipedia

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   Barcode technology in healthcare. Barcode technology in healthcare is the use of optical machine-readable representation of data in a hospital or healthcare setting. Dating back to the 1970s, there has been a continual effort among healthcare settings to adopt barcode technology. [1] In the early 2000s, published reports began to illustrate ...

7. Magnetic ink character recognition - Wikipedia

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   Magnetic ink character recognition code, known in short as MICR code, is a character recognition technology used mainly by the banking industry to streamline the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents. MICR encoding, called the MICR line, is at the bottom of cheques and other vouchers and typically includes the document-type ...