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The barcode scanners market is expected to reach $4.4 billion by 2032, at a CAGR of 7.2% from 2025 to 2032.

Barcode scanners are standard in the free version of plenty of apps, so let’s highlight one excellent alternative, and a few honorable mentions. Cronometer is the best alternative to MyFitnessPal ...

Barcode Scanners That Save to Text Files. Barcode scanners allow you to keep track of your inventory as you receive new stock, store it and ship it out to your customers. Many barcode scanners ...

Few people think twice about barcodes, but in the 75 years since they were first dreamed up, they have helped save lives, gone into space and stoked fears of the Antichrist.

This awesome guitar uses a barcode scanner to play notes, and various arcade controls to manipulate those notes. The barcodes themselves scan as ASCII values, and their equivalent integers are ...

The soaring popularity of smartphone apps that scan barcodes on food products to provide health scores are empowering consumers and shifting dynamics in the food industry, recent studies suggest.

The retail giant added “invisible barcodes” to its Great Value items. These allow customers and workers to scan items anywhere on the package—not just on the barcode box. While Walmart made ...

When I began combing through the archive of barcode history at Stony Brook University, I realized just how close we came to a world where we scan bull’s-eye or sun symbols to buy our groceries ...

Beep! The barcode, that rectangle of thick and thin parallel lines seen on seemingly every grocery product, package, prescription bottle and piece of luggage is turning 50 years old.

Royal Mail has unveiled its “postbox of the future” that is solar-powered, has a built-in barcode reader and a large hatch that can accept parcels bigger than letterbox size.