There are plenty of apps that allow you to scan barcodes for items you find in brick-and-mortar stores before you purchase them to see how much the item might cost if you bought it online, but ...

Featured in many sci-fi stories as a quicker, more efficient way to record and transfer information, barcodes are both extremely commonplace today, and still amazingly poorly understood by many.

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Companies can use the Scanbot SDK to turn any mobile device into a reliable and easy-to-use barcode scanner. With the Web SDK, no native iOS or Android app is required, since its powerful scanning ...

Using the new barcode-scanning feature is simple. Just say “Alexa, scan this to my shopping list,” and Alexa will activate the Echo Show’s built-in camera and display an outline of a generic barcode ...

I’ve always considered barcodes to be one of those invisible innovations that profoundly changed the world. What we might recognize as modern barcodes were originally designed as a labor-saving device ...

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One question we see a lot of around these parts is how do you scan QR codes in Windows 10 Mobile? Back in the days of Windows Phone 8.1 you could just launch the camera and dive into Lenses for Bing ...

The NHS food scanner app enables users to scan product barcodes from their purchases and the app will then provide a potentially healthier alternative, making it easy for families to make the switch.