This massively reduces the time to record products information and eliminates human data entry error.īarcode systems help businesses and organizations track products, prices, and stock levels for centralised management in a computer software system allowing for incredible increases in productivity and efficiency.īarcodes started out with simple 1-dimensional designs, consisting of basic black lines that could only be read by specially designed barcode scanners. The lines and patterns on a barcode are actually representations of numbers and data and their development allowed basic information about a product to be easily read by an optical scanning device (a barcode scanner) and automatically entered into a computer system.
