Barcodes may be seen on anything from identity cards to mail to retail purchases. For identifying reasons, a tiny picture of lines, bars, and spaces is fastened to virtually anything you can think of. Barcodes are made up of five parts: a quiet zone, a start character, data characters (often including an optional check character), a stop character, and another quiet zone; typically, a barcode consists of five parts: a quiet zone, a start character, data characters (often including an optional check character), a stop character, and another quiet zone. When used with barcode scanners, barcoding improves efficiency and production in a variety of sectors. Barcode scanners read barcodes with laser beams and convert the reflected light into data, which is then sent to a computer for processing or storage. In supermarkets and retail establishments, most people are familiar with barcodes and barcode readers.

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