Regardless of industry, organizations are constantly looking for effective ways to increase productivity. In a competitive market, it is imperative that companies constantly strive to find innovative ways to do more with less. Nowhere is this more evident than in businesses with processes that are paper intensive. These companies often face challenges when attempting to classify and centralize their information.
Fortunately, technology barcode can help organizations to simplify these processes with automatic indexing. Bar codes are very reliable and consistent, providing assurance that indexing is accurate. Barcodes can also choose a destination document must be when it enters an automated workflow. The companies employ barcodes for very different reasons, but they usually experience similar results: better accuracy, less chance of error, and substantial savings in time and money.
Background:
Bar code technology is a form of optical character recognition (OCR) which consists of machine readable information that is used to store data. It is cheaper, more reliable and easier to use than other forms of optical character recognition. Bar codes have been formatted in a series of bars and spaces, although the sizes, shapes and types of bar codes have become more complex and specialized technology has evolved. Usually, the accuracy rate of bar codes is much higher than that of systems OCR others, because bar codes are standardized. Other types of optical character recognition may be hindered by type of text that appears in the font sizes and styles.
types of barcodes and benefits:
Although the UPC are very visible to consumers, other types of bar codes are common in the workforce to help organizations improve their business processes. There are more than fifty types of bar codes, with multiple uses in the business world. Bar codes provide a means for automated capture, as such they can be used to automatically fill in customer information from a database, mechanical index information about documents, eliminating the seizure data and its inevitable errors, the information relating to encode document retention or destruction, and much more. The implementation of bar code technology generally translates into huge ROI in a number of different industries.
Code 128 - (also known as ISBT 128, UCC-128 and EAN-128) is widely used for shipping, it uses the 128 ASCII characters, which gives it the ability to encode text, numbers and functions.
Code 3 of 9 - The bar code the most common, is also known as Code 39 and LOGMARS. It is ideal for applications that require badges, identification, tracking, labeling of health products and inventory. As Code 128, Code 39 also supports the lower 128 ASCII characters. Each character is composed of six narrow bars and three wide, and contains four white and five black bars.
Code 2 of 5 - (also known as 2 5) is used primarily in the warehousing and distribution, as well as for sorting and plane tickets. It uses space and fixed width code combined digital information within its bar widths. A thicker version of the Code 2 5, known as intercalated, encodes data in the bars and spaces of the bar code and can even be printed from an MS Windows.