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By Larry Silverman November 25, 2015 What is a Barcode Symbology? If you’re learning about barcodes, you’ll quickly come across the term “symbology”. The easiest way to think about symbology is that it’s the look and feel of the barcode. A barcode symbology is a specification that describes how a certain barcode looks and how it does what it does. More than a hundred different symbologies have been developed since the invention of the barcode. Many are obsolete and have been replaced with more robust, readable symbologies.

Many aren’t used in typical asset tracking applications. We’ll focus on the barcode symbologies that we see most often in asset tracking software and applications. We see the following symbologies most frequently in asset tracking applications: • Code 39 • Code 128 • QR Code • Data Matrix In this chapter, we’ll focus on Code 39. The Code 39 Symbology Code 39 has several alternate names: Alpha39, Code 3/9, Type 39, USS Code 39, USD-3 and my favorite, Code 3 of 9, which sounds less like a barcode symbology and more like a Borg designation (perhaps of Tertiary Adjunct of Data Matrix Zero-One. Hey, when you wield a barcode scanner that looks like a phaser, you get to crack the occasional Star Trek joke). Code 39 is a linear or “1-dimensional” (1D) barcode. A barcode is said to be linear or 1D if it can be read by a sensor that only scans a thin horizontal line (hence linear) that slices perpendicularly across the bars of the barcode.

If you recall your geometry, a line has only one dimension (1D). Two intersecting lines define a plane having height and width (two dimensions, or 2D). We’ll discuss 2D barcodes in a future chapter. Code 39 is notable because although it was invented in 1974, it remains one of the most popular, do-it-yourself barcode types. It is a little limited in that the basic symbology allows encoding just 43 characters.

Allowed characters are: • Uppercase letters A through Z • Numbers 0 through 9 • 7 special characters –. $ / +% and space. Digiturk Play Hack.

• Note the lack of lowercase characters. The reason for Code 39’s lasting popularity is that it’s very easy to create Code 39 barcodes using free fonts. You can download and install a Code 39 TrueType barcode font from several sites, such as. Once the font is installed, you can use just about any PC, Mac or Linux word processing or spreadsheet software to create barcodes that work. If you use the “extended” version of the Free 3 of 9 barcode font, you can use any characters available in the entire ASCII character set including lowercase letters.

Be sure to test the barcodes with all your scanner models to ensure they read successfully. Not all scanners may honor the extended character set, so better safe than sorry. Tutorial: Create a Code 39 Barcode with a Word Processor Here’s a tutorial on creating a barcode with word processors like Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, OpenOffice or LibreOffice. We’ll use Matthew Welch’s Free 3 of 9 font. We’ll assume you’ve already downloaded the font and installed it in your local operating system. To encode the number 1234567 as a barcode: • Open your word processor and start a new document • Type the following, including asterisks: *1234567* • Highlight it and change the font to “Free 3 of 9”. • Increase the font size as needed.