Does someone have experience in scanning 2D Symbols into Baan? Especially PDF417 symbols encoded per AIAG Specification B14.

I would also be interested in this for future reference. I have been told we might have to create some PDF417 labels from Baan, but have not heard about scanning them in. I suspect we might also need that feature.

Good question ~Vamsi.

Mark

what do you need to know?

what kind of scanner are you thinking of; PC based or portable?
How are you planning to generate the barcodes?

Andy, We have PDF417 print capability via the use of Intermec Label printers.

As for the scanning we have handheld computers and scan wedges for PCs which both use the same scanning engine.

http://www.lxe.com/pdf/MX6Datasheet.pdf
http://www.hhp.com/hhp/products/product.tpl?prodsku=0937023966884

So the question is, how does one parse the long string into the various fields. Has someone already done this? Especially has someone done this with 2D symbols with the standard specified by AIAG?

Mark, I have not seen 2D symbol print capability using Baan. RMCis seems to have an add-on for Baan. Lisa any info on the product and which printers it supports?

Yes, thanks Vamsi, we were going to post on this. We support the printing with our RMClabel barcode software that runs in Baan. You can print 2D to regular bar code printers using the PDF417 symbology. In our product, you define your source fields in Baan and the 2D elements and separators, and we spit it out to Intermec, Zebra, other printers in PDF417 standard.

~Vamsi,

We use Bar-One, Jetforms and Zebra printers to currently print our barcode tags from Baan. I guess I assumed (probably bad assumption) that since I could design tags using the PDF417 format, I could then create a Baan report that would send the info to Jetforms to print the PDF417 tag. I was thinking that all I needed to do was figure out how to format the report fields. I did not do any more research since I am not include in the project that is looking at tagging our inventory for tracking based on some new government regulation. Our actual barcode tags do not come from Baan(depending on how you look at this), but we do use baan to print a few reports with barcodes using a user defined font. So I was basically looking for how I might need to design the reports.

Thanks

Mark

If you use Jetforms/Zebra printers you are good. You cannot with todays functionality print 2D symbols using BWPrint.

Just an idea but is it possible to get a newer version of AXBarcode OCX control that still works with BW?

Phil,

I looked into that option. AXBarcode does make 2D symbology Activex controls. But the control is separate from the one that is integrated into BWPrint. This is something that Baan will have to provide.

This would be a low cost high value addition to the product IMO.