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We have a few barcodes printed on forms vertically, can FormIDEA read them?

April 26, 2017barcodes formidea forms printed read vertically

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We have a few barcodes printed on forms vertically, can FormIDEA read them?

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Yes. FormIDEA can scan and read barcodes printed in all four different orientations: left-right, top-down, right-left and bottom-up. Also, barcode image skew will be compensated automatically. Question Index Our problem in barcode indexing is that the barcode types are determined by our local branch offices and they may choose to use different barcode symbols on the same type of forms. Can your FormIDEA help? Maybe. FormIDEA can read barcode symbols in 8 different (most common) types automatically, including Codabar, Code39, Code128, Int2of5, EAN8, EAN13, UPCA, UPCE, and it can detect anyone of these types automatically without any pre-determined type information. If you are not sure which type of barcode would appear, you can specify the barcode type as UNKNOWN (in the reference form you created using the FormDefine module) and let FormIDEA read it for you. However, the current version of FormIDEA does not support “floating” barcode zones. This means that although you are allowed to c