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The 1979 comedy book ''[[Wikipedia:The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade 1980-1989|The 80s: A Look Back]]'', giving a fake "future history" of the 1980s, had fake bar codes (in a square format) on every page, parodying a belief that this sort of thing (proposed to be used in computer magazines to provide scannable program code) would go mainstream. The book also had an article "Adieu, Print" about the demise of print publishing, which was a few decades ahead of its time.
 
The 1979 comedy book ''[[Wikipedia:The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade 1980-1989|The 80s: A Look Back]]'', giving a fake "future history" of the 1980s, had fake bar codes (in a square format) on every page, parodying a belief that this sort of thing (proposed to be used in computer magazines to provide scannable program code) would go mainstream. The book also had an article "Adieu, Print" about the demise of print publishing, which was a few decades ahead of its time.
  
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*[[3-DI]]
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== Linear (1-D) Bar Codes ==
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*[[ArrayTag]]
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=== Point-of-purchase codes ===
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*[[EAN-2]]
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*[[EAN-5]]
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*[[EAN-8]]
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*[[EAN-13]] (used in place of UPC internationally and on books and medicines in the USA)
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*[[EAN-14]]
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*[[JAN]]
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*[[UPC-A]] (Universal Product Code)
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*[[UPC-E]] (compact variety of UPC)
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=== Postal codes ===
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*[[Australia Post standard customer barcode]]
 
*[[Australia Post standard customer barcode]]
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*[[Aztec Code]]
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*[[CPC Binary]]
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*[[DAFT]]
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*[[Facing Identification Mark]]
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*[[Intelligent Mail barcode]]
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*[[Japanese postal barcode]]
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*[[KIX barcode]]
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*[[Korean Postal Authority Code]]
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*[[PLANET]]
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*[[PostBar]]
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*[[POSTNET]]
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*[[Royal Mail 4-State]] (RM4SCC)
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=== General linear codes ===
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*[[Codabar]]
 
*[[Codabar]]
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*[[Codablock F]]
 
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*[[Code 1]] (1A through 1H)
 
 
*[[Code 11]]
 
*[[Code 11]]
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*[[Code 16K]]
 
 
*[[Code 25]]
 
*[[Code 25]]
 
*[[Code 39]]
 
*[[Code 39]]
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*[[Code 49]]
 
 
*[[Code 93]]
 
*[[Code 93]]
 
*[[Code 128]]
 
*[[Code 128]]
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*[[ColorCode]]
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*[[DPD Barcode]]
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*[[Color Construct Code]]
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*[[DUN-14]]
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*[[GS1-128]]
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*[[GS1 DataBar]]
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*[[HIBC]]
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*[[Interleaved 2 of 5]] (I 2/5)
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*[[MSI]]
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*[[Pharmacode]]
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*[[Plessey]]
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*[[Telepen]]
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== Matrix (2-D) Bar Codes ==
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=== Stacked linear codes ===
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*[[Codablock F]]
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*[[Code 16K]]
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*[[Code 49]]
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*[[PDF417]]
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** [[MicroPDF417]]
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=== Square/Rectangular codes ===
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*[[Aztec Code]]
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*[[Code 1]] (1A through 1H)
 
*[[Compact Matrix Code]]
 
*[[Compact Matrix Code]]
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*[[CP Code]]
 
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*[[CPC Binary]]
 
 
*[[CyberCode]]
 
*[[CyberCode]]
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*[[d-touch]]
 
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*[[DAFT]]
 
 
*[[DataGlyph]]
 
*[[DataGlyph]]
 
*[[Data Matrix]]
 
*[[Data Matrix]]
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*[[Dot code (Olympus)]]
 
*[[Dot code (Olympus)]]
 
*[[Dot Code A]]
 
*[[Dot Code A]]
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*[[DPD Barcode]]
 
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*[[DUN-14]]
 
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*[[EAN-2]]
 
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*[[EAN-5]]
 
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*[[EAN-8]]
 
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*[[EAN-13]] (used in place of UPC internationally and on books and medicines in the USA)
 
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*[[EAN-14]]
 
 
*[[EZcode]]
 
*[[EZcode]]
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*[[Facing Identification Mark]]
 
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*[[Flattermarken]]
 
 
*[[Grid Matrix Code]]
 
*[[Grid Matrix Code]]
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*[[GS1-128]]
 
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*[[GS1 DataBar]]
 
 
*[[Han Xin Code]]
 
*[[Han Xin Code]]
 
*[[HD Barcode]]
 
*[[HD Barcode]]
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*[[HIBC]]
 
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*[[High Capacity Color Barcode]]
 
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*[[HueCode]]
 
 
*[[INTACTA.CODE]]
 
*[[INTACTA.CODE]]
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*[[Intelligent Mail barcode]]
 
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*[[InterCode]]
 
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*[[Interleaved 2 of 5]] (I 2/5)
 
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*[[ITF-14]]
 
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*[[JAN]]
 
 
*[[JAGTAG]]
 
*[[JAGTAG]]
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*[[Japanese postal barcode]]
 
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*[[KIX barcode]]
 
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*[[Korean Postal Authority Code]]
 
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*[[Latent image barcode]]
 
 
*[[MaxiCode]]
 
*[[MaxiCode]]
 
*[[mCode]]
 
*[[mCode]]
 
*[[MiniCode]]
 
*[[MiniCode]]
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*[[MMCC]]
 
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*[[MSI]]
 
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*[[Optar]]
 
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*[[PaperDisk]]
 
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*[[PDF417]]
 
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** [[MicroPDF417]]
 
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*[[PDMark]]
 
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*[[Pharmacode]]
 
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*[[PLANET]]
 
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*[[Plessey]]
 
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*[[PostBar]]
 
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*[[POSTNET]]
 
 
*[[QuickMark Code]]
 
*[[QuickMark Code]]
 
*[[QR code]] (Quick Response, used in marketing)
 
*[[QR code]] (Quick Response, used in marketing)
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*[[Royal Mail 4-State]] (RM4SCC)
 
 
*[[Secure Seal]]
 
*[[Secure Seal]]
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*[[SmartCode]]
 
 
*[[Snowflake Code]]
 
*[[Snowflake Code]]
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*[[ShotCode]]
 
 
*[[SPARQCode]]
 
*[[SPARQCode]]
 
*[[SuperCode]]
 
*[[SuperCode]]
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*[[Telepen]]
 
 
*[[Trillcode]]
 
*[[Trillcode]]
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*[[UltraCode]]
 
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*[[UnisCode]]
 
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*[[UPC-A]] (Universal Product Code)
 
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*[[UPC-E]] (compact variety of UPC)
 
 
*[[VeriCode]]
 
*[[VeriCode]]
 
*[[WaterCode]]
 
*[[WaterCode]]
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=== Circular codes ===
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*[[3-DI]]
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*[[ShotCode]]
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=== Other shapes ===
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*[[ArrayTag]]
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=== Multicolor codes ===
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*[[ColorCode]]
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*[[Color Construct Code]]
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*[[High Capacity Color Barcode]]
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*[[HueCode]]
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*[[MMCC]]
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*[[UltraCode]]
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*[[UnisCode]]
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=== Large-scale data storage codes ===
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*[[Optar]]
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*[[PaperDisk]]
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*[[PDMark]]
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== Other/Misc./Unknown ==
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*[[CP Code]]
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*[[d-touch]]
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*[[Flattermarken]]
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*[[InterCode]]
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*[[Latent image barcode]]
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*[[SmartCode]]
  
 
== References ==
 
== References ==

Revision as of 02:19, 23 August 2013

File Format
Name Bar codes
Ontology

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Bar codes are used for a lot of purposes from product coding and inventory control to providing electronically-readable tags giving supplemental information such as web links related to a place or thing. The name tends to be used generically to cover all sorts of printed tags that can be read by machines, even if some don't actually have bars in them; they may have dots, squares, triangles, or other shapes instead. Some are "one-dimensional", read linearly; others are "two-dimensional" with a matrix of shapes. Some make use of color to distinguish elements, but most are monochrome and can be printed in any arbitrary color (usually black). A bar code format is known as a "symbology".

The 1979 comedy book The 80s: A Look Back, giving a fake "future history" of the 1980s, had fake bar codes (in a square format) on every page, parodying a belief that this sort of thing (proposed to be used in computer magazines to provide scannable program code) would go mainstream. The book also had an article "Adieu, Print" about the demise of print publishing, which was a few decades ahead of its time.

Contents

Linear (1-D) Bar Codes

Point-of-purchase codes

Postal codes

General linear codes

Matrix (2-D) Bar Codes

Stacked linear codes

Square/Rectangular codes

Circular codes

Other shapes

Multicolor codes

Large-scale data storage codes

Other/Misc./Unknown

References

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