While we buy products we can see a sticker on that product packet. That sticker will contain bars (lines) and some numbers.
Those stickers with bars are know as Bar code.
These bar code is generated by Barcode generator. The speciality of this code is that it can only be detected by a computer.
The barcode generator develops different barcodes for different items. So it is useful for preventing duplicate products.
Usually barcode contains vertical bars. These bars contains some encoded data in it.
Apart from products and food items, bar code is now commonly used in Answer sheets and in very important documents.
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