Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the barcode—more than 6 billion are scanned every single day. Here’s what to know about their history.

Just ask the inventors of the barcode. Patented in 1952, the barcode as we know it today was an innovation almost 50 years in the making. No one made any real money from it until 1974, and its ...

BONN, Germany, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- After successfully launching three new demo apps for iOS and Android in 2022, Scanbot SDK has started ...

Country barcode prefixes do not indicate where a product was made, only the country where the company that makes the product is registered. Also, Israel hasn't changed its barcode prefix. Since ...

Barcodes 'to disappear' from all products in major change for shoppers The next generation of Smart QR codes promise to provide consumers instant access to extensive online information about ...

Traditional barcodes can only hold seven pieces of basic information — a product's name, manufacturer, type, size, weight, colour and, most importantly, its price.