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Creating and Using Barcodes with Free Software & Inkscape

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Terry Hancock
Jan 5, 2015

Barcodes provide a simple, reliable, machine-readable way to read numbers or addresses into your computer so that information can be looked up online or in a database. There are a number of different standards for barcodes, and the most-commonly used ones are quite easy to use and create with simple free software applications

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Terry Hancock

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