Retail Barcode Scanning
The cluster focuses on debates about using barcode scanners for product identification in retail and checkout processes, including feasibility, reliability issues, and comparisons to alternatives like RFID or phone apps.
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Why isn't this possible with barcodes?
Couldn't you just snap a photo of the barcodes, then scan a printout next time?
You can scan barcode most of the time.
Usable? Scanning codes and plastic sticks? Not really
There's noting stopping you from scanning the barcode multiple times
I was more thinking of an external barcode reader, scan and toss.
No offense but it's not the barcode scanning that's the problem for this feature :)
Don't the serial numbers have bar codes under them? Would a bar code scanner not solve this problem?
Not for scanning barcodes; I've seen them in action, they're noticeably slower and the image processing seems more involved than whatever magic is in barcode scanners.
this is how they've always worked. How else should a barcode be entered by a scanner?