Category: business-insights
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The global shipping industry is essential to international commerce, with over 90% of commodities globally transported by sea. The capacity to accurately monitor and control the movement of these containers is essential for maintaining efficient supply chains. The manual input of container numbers, a critical component of this procedure, presents...
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Pallet scanning often refers to the process of reading data from barcodes on the pallets. This process can be done manually with handheld scanners or automatically with fixed barcode scanners placed at strategic points in the logistics chain, such as loading docks or warehouse entrances. A pallet scanning system combines...
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Avec autant de types de codes-barres 1D et 2D, comment choisir le bon ? Dans cet article, nous vous donnons un guide complet des codes-barres 1D et 2D, couvrant 18 types majeurs de codes-barres. Collectivement, ils couvrent la majorité des besoins d’application. Pour les codes-barres 1D, ils incluent : UPC-A...
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Reduce the Size of Color Images and Image-Only PDFs by 90% Image segmentation is a process to partition the pixels of an image into different classes, with each class carrying the coherent characteristics. The characteristics could be color, texture, and intensity. In the document digitization field, image segmentation is commonly...
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Barcode technologies are used to quickly identify items. As a provider of professional barcode SDKs, Dynamsoft has been involved in computer vision for more than ten years. In this post, we list 11 facts you should know to help you choose a barcoding solution. We aim to make that selection...
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Intelligent Mail barcode, Postnet and Planet are three universal postal barcode types developed by the United States Postal Service. In this article, we will discuss the usage of each symbol and make a comparison between them. Basic introduction The Postnet (Postal Numeric Encoding Technique) barcode symbology was used by the...
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Basic introduction A QR code (Quick Response code) is a 2D barcode type. It consists of black squares arranged in a square grid on a white background, which can be read by a camera, scanner, or other imaging devices. PDF417 barcodes are a type of stacked, variable length, bi-directional 2D...
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Code 39 and Code 128 are both 1D barcodes that support both numeric and alpha data. They are widely used in non-retail environments, such as library books, membership cards, small items, etc. In this article, we will compare the two barcodes and help you understand the differences between them. Scan...
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Are you wondering about what types of barcodes you should use for your particular usage scenario? Are you confused by the many similar barcode types? To help you differentiate the different barcode types, we have published a comprehensive guide to 1D and 2D barcodes. In this article, we will dive...
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Today more than ever one would think that U.S. businesses consume less and less paper each year. Despite the many opportunities that exist now to take a business digital in place of paper, paper consumption in the U.S. continues to increase. Regardless, there are many organizations turning to solutions for...
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Barcodes have an array of applications – they are business critical in warehousing for inventory management. They can be productive in retail marketing campaigns and much more. Here is a short but useful collection of how a couple of European and a couple of California businesses leverage barcodes for their...
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With so many 1D and 2D barcode types, how do you choose the right one? In this article, we give you a comprehensive guide to 1D and 2D barcodes, covering 18 major barcodes types. Collectively, they cover the bulk of application needs. For 1D barcodes, they include: UPC-A UPC-E EAN...
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You may be wondering what’s the difference between an SDK and an API. The short answer is that they are used in different ways and for different purposes. In this post, we discuss what is an SDK, and what is an API. What is an SDK? A Software Development Kit...
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology is a mature technology with widespread business use. Essentially, it enables users to extract text from an image so it can be manipulated in a word processor or database. In other words, it transforms a difficult-to-use image into meaningful content. So, what are some of...
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Business productivity decreases when paper starts stacking up in the office, making it impossible to have an office workspace without a document scanner. Millions of paper documents are scanned daily to find, store, verify, and share information. This digital transit of documents requires fast and accurate OCR functionality working at...
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There are a few ways to set a process’s CPU affinity. In this article, we will discuss a few options. Web Server NGINX With NGINX on FreeBSD and Linux, you can bind worker processes to a set of CPUs using the worker_cpu_affinity directive. Please find the details here: Worker_cpu_affinity. IIS...
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The market for barcode scanners remains robust with at least one estimate calling for CAGR growth of around seven percent through 2027. They’ve been around forever and as a result, there exists a variety of hardware to scan barcodes, each with pros and cons depending on your goals with barcode...
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