Today marks 40 years since the system that replaced the label gun in grocery stores first came into use. The GS1 barcode system (as seen on all supermarket products) was first adopted in the USA in 1973. The first item scanned in the US was a packet of Wrigley’s chewing gum in 1974. The UK
Whilst there are many conventional ways to use a barcode, a sports organisation in the UK has found a less conventional use – race timings. Parkrun in the UK are an organisation sponsored by a number of sports outlets, set up to run free weekly Saturday morning 5k runs in local parks to encourage participation in sports
Hello and welcome to our new website! We have been working on this for some time now and think that it is an improvement on our last website. Our aim has been to produce a website which is tailored to our customer’s needs. With a simplification of our layout we have tried to minimize the
We are very happy to announce that the Softek Barcode Reader SDK for Windows now supports QR Codes and our mobile SDK versions will not be far behind. After a lot of development and testing we think that it is a major enhancement but don’t take our word for it; try it yourself now! But what
Humans seems to have an obsession with barcodes which goes far beyond an appreciation for the efficiency they provide in a consumer setting. They seem to have come to represent something very particular, the distilling of large amounts of information into something simple. Alongside this is the fact that it is something so simple that
Alongside the fish and waves the decorate the cobbled streets in Rio de Janeiro, QR codes have begun to appear. This week, the first of around 30 planned QR codes was completed, built from black and smartphone or tablet users to reach a website available in English, Portuguese and Spanish containing a map of the
The new version of the Linux Toolkit expands compatibility by including builds for several popular Linux distributions. The binary files for each distribution are installed into a sub-folders under the “build” folder and the “configure.sh” script should be run to create the correct symbolic links into the folder. Here is the full list of builds
We are pleased to announce the release of Version 7.5.1 of the Linux SDK. Existing customers with support and upgrade cover will be contacted in due course. This update brings the Linux SDK in line with the Windows variant with the introduction of support for the ubiquitous QR-Code and significant improvements to Datamatrix and PDF-417 recognition. The new
We are pleased to announce the minor release for the Windows SDK, V 7.5.1.22, which has various improvements. One of the biggest changes is the improved handling of skewed QR-Codes, which can now tolerate a far greater amount of skew. If you are an existing customer then you are welcome to upgrade for free, the
Old Style Jpeg Compression (tag value 6) is an obsolete compression format that has now been superseded by ‘new style’ Jpeg compression (tag value 7) and should be avoided if possible. Softek products have limited support for files written using this format but best results will be obtained by switching to either the ‘new-style’ Jpeg