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Retail stores continue to find new ways to engage customers and build better customer relationships, even or especially during COVID-19. According to Small Business Trends, there are at least five things customers want from a retail store. These include personalized customer service, online/offline integration, the use of mobile technology, loyalty...

Barcode technologies are used to quickly identify items. As a provider of professional barcode SDKs, Dynamsoft has been involved in computer vision for more than ten years. In this post, we list 11 facts you should know to help you choose a barcoding solution. We aim to make that selection...

Retail store checkout today has evolved with new technologies to choose from. Among them, two are mobile-point-of-sale (mPOS) and self-checkout solutions. Both are widely popular. For example, according to a Global Market Insights report, mPOS terminal adoption sales will reach $55 billion by 2024. Meanwhile, Retail Customer Experience reported 66 percent of...

Have you noticed your bank starts to charge for paper statements and keep nudging you to go green by transitioning to digital statements? This global phenomenon of digitizing paper documents began a long time ago. The initiative was to make documents more accessible and easier to manage. Although the use...

Dynamsoft has rolled out a new version of the Barcode Reader SDK, Dynamsoft Barcode Reader v7.6. This version brings a dramatic performance boost by utilizing CPU and GPU acceleration. Desktop and Mobile Barcode SDK Highlights Improved the decoding speed by utilizing SIMD (single instruction, multiple data). All barcode decoding APIs...

Dynamsoft’s Barcode Reader SDK is a cross-platform bar code detection and decoding library. With the barcode scanning SDK, developers could easily build Java barcode applications on Windows, Linux, and macOS. The Complete SDK Package Get 30-day free trial of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK > Java Barcode Quick Start A dynamsoft-barcodereader-7.5.jar file...

A webcam allows users to capture images and video streams in real-time. It is usually built into a laptop or physically connected to a computer via a USB port. Webcams can be used in many scenarios, including video conference calls, face recognition, security surveillance, etc. How to Access a Webcam...

Intelligent Mail barcode, Postnet and Planet are three universal postal barcode types developed by the United States Postal Service. In this article, we will discuss the usage of each symbol and make a comparison between them. Basic introduction The Postnet (Postal Numeric Encoding Technique) barcode symbology was used by the...

Basic introduction A QR code (Quick Response code) is a 2D barcode type. It consists of black squares arranged in a square grid on a white background, which can be read by a camera, scanner, or other imaging devices. PDF417 barcodes are a type of stacked, variable length, bi-directional 2D...

Code 39 and Code 128 are both 1D barcodes that support both numeric and alpha data. They are widely used in non-retail environments, such as library books, membership cards, small items, etc. In this article, we will compare the two barcodes and help you understand the differences between them. Scan...