Barcode Scanner

One more thing that can be done by Android that may not be done by phone using any other OS Android is functioning as a tool to scan barcodes. If you do not know what that barcode, look at a product (or maybe on the product box itself), usually there are small lines with different thickness, lined with regularly.


Surely you've seen the barcode is printed on almost all products sold in shops. The sign which contains a collection of numbers and this actually means and its own code. For example, a barcode is printed on a product usually contains information regarding the name and price of the product concerned. At that time, you also will find a barcode on a web page that when scanned will directly take you to a particular link.

To make an Android phone could read barcode from a product, you need an application called "Barcode Scanner" that can be downloaded at the Market.

Its use was fairly easy. First, run the Android Barcode Scanner application, and camera phone when it will be active immediately. Then, hold the camera with one product (or box of the product) that has a barcode, then the camera will automatically detect the product code. Set the camera with a product range such that the barcode can be detected properly.

If it is detected barcodes, barcode code results can be shared via eMail or via SMS. If you want to find the product code that uses Google Web Search can use the buttons at the bottom left corner.

In addition to using barcode scanners from zxing Team, other applications can rely on is QuickMark Barcode Scanner equally can get for free from the Android Market. Its use was almost the same way, does not require any special skills, it requires only once or twice then you can understand how to use a barcode scanner.

By using this application, you need not bother looking for a barcode reader specific tools that normally exist only in shops and offices.