Barcodes
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The Problem With the One-Line Scanner
George Lurer was working at IBM when he came up with the idea for a new barcode. He says it had to be omnidirectional and fit more code into less space. The original circular design solved this because it could be read from any direction. But there was still the issue of the one-line scanner.
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