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Friday, July 11, 2008

Reading Bar Codes from Cellphones

Evan Schuman writes that bar code interpretation software is close to being commonly shipped on smartphones, to be used in conjunction with cell phone cameras. wrote about this before, and our experiments with related methods, but two big barriers exist. The use of non standard codes and that consumers have to download software to do the code analysis. Once these two issues are solved there should be an explosion of phone based uses. Phone as a sensor. Shown, an example of 1D and 2D bar codes. A solution should work with standard forms of each.

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