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Barcode readers have been made simple to use.

There is a laser in the barcode reader (scanner) that is shined against the barcode. The reflected light is converted back to electrical energy. Now, the reflection is going to show small dark regions (thin bars), large dark regions (thick bars), no dark region (space beteern bars). etc. This information is automatically translated into the exact number the barcode represents.

Barcodes have a specific START symbol at the beginning of the barcode and a specific END symbol where the barcode ends. The reader knows that if you held the barcode upside down (and thus scanned it backwards), it has to reverse the sequence of numbers. So it always sends the correct information to its output port.

ASCII code is the standard by which all characters (numbers, letters, etc.) are represented inside the computer's memory. When you use the keyboard and press "2", the specific ASCII code for the number 2 is sent to the processor. When you use the barcode scanner, it uses the exact same ASCII representation so that the processor does not know if the data came in from a barcode reader or from the keyboard!

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