Barcode SDK/ActiveX Barcoding Standards Comparison Chart
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The Black Ice Barcode SDK/ActiveX toolkits are robust and efficient libraries of 1D and 2D barcoding functions, such as reading/decoding, writing/encoding, searching barcodes, and detecting barcode orientation. The Black Ice Barcode SDK/ActiveX toolkits are written to be image toolkit independent, and can be used with any Black Ice imaging toolkit, such as the TIFF SDK/ActiveX , the Image SDK/ActiveX , or the Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX They can also be used with any third party imaging platform.

The Black Ice Barcode SDK/ActiveX toolkits support the following Barcode standards:

Barcode Type Supported Characters Length
EAN 13 Linear Numbers 12 data digits and 1 check digit; 2 or 5 digit supplement optional
EAN 8 Linear Numbers  
UPC-A Linear Numbers 11 data digits and 1 check digit; 2 or 5 digit supplemental optional
UPC-E Linear Numbers  
Code 11 Linear Numbers Variable
Interleaved 2 from 5 Linear Numbers Variable
Industrial 2 from 5 Linear Numbers Variable
Codabar Linear Numbers
Symbols: - : . $ / +
Start/Stop Characters: A, B, C, D, E, *, N, or T
Variable
Plessy Linear Numbers Variable
Code 3 of 9 Linear Uppercase letters
Numbers
Space - . $ / + %
Variable
Code 128 Linear All ASCII characters and control codes Variable
PDF417 2-D ASCII characters Up to 1850 ASCII or 2725 numeric characters
DataMatrix 2-D All ASCII characters Up to 2335 ASCII characters

Future releases will add support for additional barcode types, such as PDF417.

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