How to create your own Barcode
October 8th, 2009 - 4:20 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Oct 7 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Today is the 57th birthday of the humble black and white barcode. On this day in 1952, it was granted a patent applied by Americans Joseph Woodland and Bernard. They had requested for the patent in 1942.
A traditional barcode is made up of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser and where the width of the line denotes important information. This optical reader converts the information so received into a digital format, which is then processed by a computer.
The favorite Search engine of all, Google has changed their logo to a barcode, to celebrate its birthday. Similarly, you can also create your own barcode.
The website http://www.barcodesinc.com/generator/index.php can help you in creating your own barcode.
Similarly, the website http://www.morovia.com/free%2Donline%2Dbarcode%2Dgenerator/ will also let you create your own barcode.
According to a Washington Post report, the doodle bar code appears to have been created by encrypting the word ‘Google’ using Code 128, a standard symbology. However, bar codes were not used commercially until retailers in the National Association of Food Chains (NAFC) agreed on the familiar Universal Product Code designs that are still seen on billions of worldwide items today.
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