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Let’s talk symbology: A guide to decoding barcodes

March 13, 2015
Sponsored by Cognex
We can hardly imagine a world without barcodes. Available in various guises, barcodes continue to benefit industries that manufacture, buy, sell and distribute products. They help collect data faster and more reliably, improve decision making, eliminate the possibility of human error, reduce employee training time and track products throughout their lifecycle. They are also extremely versatile, inexpensive to design and print and ultimately reduce costs. Quite simply they have changed the way businesses work across the globe.

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