| Although you can create high quality barcodes | | | | where data can be read by an operator o |
| from your computer or any other barcode | | | | machine. |
| printing device, anyone can go farther the linear | | | | Although they are similar to flatbed scanners, |
| representation with a barcode scanner that | | | | requiring a light source that sends the optical |
| translates the barcode data into human-readable | | | | impulses through their circuits, barcode scanners |
| information. Barcode scanner, or barcode readers | | | | are smaller and there are even wireless handheld |
| as they are called popularly, are electronic devices | | | | and pen type readers, also known as |
| that contain decoding circuitry that analyze the | | | | "wandsâ that send the information |
| content of a barcode an send the decoded | | | | directly to a terminal, computer, or any other |
| information to an in-built screen or to other device | | | | device that print or stores the information. |