Barcode Scanners

Critical Literature Review on Data Capture about Barcode Scanners

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Table of Contents

Introduction3

Significance of the Study4

Overview of Literature4

Research design8

Findings8

Findings of this study are as follows:8

Thematic Comparison of Literature on Data Capture about Barcode Scanners8

Bar Code Scanning System in Pharmacy for Medication Dispensing8

Barcode Scanners in Grocery Check-out9

Barcode for Scanning Books for Personal Library9

Barcode Scanners in Business Enterprises10

Barcode scanning system as a means of data entry on a PDA for self-report health outcome questionnaires12

Barcode Scanning for Vaccine Production12

Conclusion12

Recommendations for Future Research13

References14

Glossary16



Critical Literature Review on Data Capture about Barcode Scanners

Introduction

Data capture is the term used for the recognition and extraction of data from a scanned document, mostly for sending it to a workflow for action as well as routing. It considered as a significant part a of business practices. Data capture software is valuable and complex because it captures particular, targeted data mostly from a form which is necessarily required to execute a business process. There are a number of data capture technologies available in market including magnetic stripe, bar code (both linear and 2D symbologies), and biometrics, RFID, smart cards (both contact and contactless), fingerprint scanning, Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) and Near Field Communications. There are considerable differences in all these devices and all are used for specific purposes but they all are designed to provide a means of data capture or data collection without any human intervention. Here data capture through barcode scanners is going to be studied. Furthermore, implementation of barcode scanners in different areas and its effectiveness will be discussed.

Barcode Scanners are considered to be very important in business practices as they help in capturing important data in a very simple way. They work accordingly with the environment. Broadest and most fully featured portfolio of bar code scanners are offered these days such as, handsfree, handheld, fixed mount scanners and microkiosks that serve people with the best data capture services. This advance technology of scanning allows any bar code to e virtually captured by workers either it printed on a damaged or dirty label or it displayed on the screen of a mobile phone. They type of data does not matter actually, a scanner is always ready to perform its job involving the PDF417 bar codes or 1D and 2D bar codes as well as various other identification images, cards, RFID tags, signatures, direct part marks, optical character recognition (OCR), and the special bar codes on the bottom of checks (MICR) in order to capture the text on documents. This technology is highly efficient as it facilitates workers to capture virtually any bar code in as fast as laser-like speed.

Significance of the Study

This study will be beneficial for business dealers who will be aware with the advantages of implementing this advance technology for conducting their business practices.

Overview of Literature

Authors

Year

Paper Title

Paper Summary

John B. Grotting,

Michael Yang ,

Jamie Kelly,

Mary Michael, Brown

Barbara Trohimovich

2002

Barbara Trohimovich The Effect of Barcode-Enabled Point-of-Care Technology on Patient Safety

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