CODABAR码编码方式.doc

CODABAR SYMBOLOGY (Monarch, NW-7, USD-4, 2 of 7 code) CODABAR BACKGROUND INFORMATION Codabar was developed was developed in 1972 Pitney Bowes, Inc. It is a discrete, self-checking symbology that may encode 16 different characters, plus an additional 4 start/stop characters. This symbology is used by U.S. blood banks, photo labs, and on FedEx airbills. A typical Codabar barcode is: Since Codabar is self-checking, there is no established checksum digit. Should a specific application wish to implement a checksum digit for additional security, it is up to the implementer to define and handle same. However, keep in mind that other applications that read your barcode will interpret your checksum digit as part of the message itself. ENCODING THE SYMBOL In the following text, we will discuss the encoding of the barcode by considering that the number 1 represents a dark or bar section of the barcode whereas a 0 represents a light or space section of the barcode. Thus the numbers 1101 represents a double-wide bar (11), followed by a single-wide space (0), followed by a single-wide bar (1). This would be printed in the barcode as: STRUCTURE OF A CODABAR BARCODE A Code 11 Barcode has the following structure: One of four possible start characters (A, B, C, or D), encoded from the table below. A narrow, inter-character space. The data of the message, encoded from the table below, with a narrow inter-character space between each character. One of four possible stop characters (A, B, C, or D), encoded from the table below. CODABAR ENCODING TABLE This table indicates how to encode each digit of a Codabar barcode. Note that the Width Encoding column is expressed as 0 (narrow bar or space) or 1 (wide bar or space) while the Barcode Encoding column represents how the barcode will actually be encoded as described above in Encoding the Symbol. For example, the character 0 is defined as 0000011 by Codabar. This means a Narrow bar, narrow space, narrow bar, narrow space, narrow b