Barcodes Extraction
A barcode is a machine-readable code that consists of a series of parallel lines of varying widths and spacings. It can store a variety of data, such as product information, prices, and inventory tracking numbers. The most common type of barcode is the 1D barcode, which is a series of lines of varying widths that can be scanned by a laser scanner. Another type of barcode is the 2D barcode, which can store more information than 1D barcodes and can be scanned by cameras or smartphones.
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Barcodes Extraction
The modern barcode, as we know it today, was invented by two American inventors, Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver, in the late 1940s. They were both students at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia when they came up with the idea.
The inspiration for the barcode came to Woodland and Silver during a beach trip. Woodland, who was interested in finding a way to automate the process of capturing product information at the checkout counter, started drawing patterns of thin and thick lines in the sand, which he realized could represent data in a machine-readable format.
After several attempts, Woodland and Silver filed a patent application in 1949 for a "Classifying Apparatus and Method." This patent outlined the concept of a circular barcode pattern that could be read using an optical scanner.
In the following years, the development of barcode technology continued, but it wasn't until the early 1970s that the Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode system was adopted and widely implemented in the retail industry. The first product ever sold using a UPC barcode was a pack of Wrigley's chewing gum at a supermarket in Ohio in 1974.
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