LEXICON
No.123 September 3, 2012

(one-dimensional) Barcode
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Two-dimensional (2D) code
二次元コード

Barcodes (バーコード) have become ubiquitous in industrialized countries. Today almost all industrial products carry these identifiers that indicate figures and letters by varying widths of and spaces between parallel lines (bars). Barcodes are scanned by optical scanners (barcode readers). They...

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