NLS-Glossary
EDIFACT
The international standard that supports EDI transactions across national boundaries.
Electronic data interchange (EDI)
Electronic data interchange. Intercompany, computer-to-computer business transactions.
Element / Barcode
A single bar or space in a bar code.
Ernst Karl Abbe
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"Ernst Carl Abbe" January 23, 1840 Eisenach, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach January 14, 1905 (64) |
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German physicist, optical scientist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. |
| Ernst Abbe grew up in a family of simple means in Eisenach. He studied mathematics and physics on a college scholarship. In the year 1863, he was awarded a doctorate degree in Jena, where he later taught as a professor of physics. was a German physicist, optical scientist, entrepreneur. he developed numerous optical instruments. His theory of optical imaging of the microscope established Abbe as the founder of scientific optics. | |
Error correction / Barcode
A means of preserving data integrity in symbols that encode large amounts of information by encoding redundant information into the symbol. When error correction is used, the scanner can detect and correct any missing information (as might occur if the symbol is damaged). Various levels of correction can be used; the higher the correction level, the more redundant information is encoded, and the more robust (error-proof) the symbol is. However, higher correction levels have the consequence of lessening the data-carrying capacity of the symbol.
Extended Channel Interpretation (ECI)
is an extension to the communication protocol that is used to transmit data from a bar code reader to a host when a bar code symbol is scanned. It enables the application software to receive additional information about the intended interpretation of the message contained within the barcode symbol and even details about the scan itself. ECI was developed as a symbology-independent extension of the Global Label Identifier (GLI) system used in the PDF417 bar code.
Here a short overview about the available ECI specifiers for defining the encoding of subsequent bar code data.
ECI 000000 (equates to original GLI 0): The lower half of the character set (decimal value 0 to 127) equates to ISO/IEC 646: 1991 IRV (equivalent to ANSI X3.4), the upper half (decimal value 128 to 255) equates to Code Page PC437.ISO/IEC 15438 Bar code symbology specification-PDF417: Default character set to 1994 specification with GLI rules.
ECI 000001(equates to original GLI 1): The lower half of the character set (decimal value 0 to 127) equates to ISO/IEC 646: 1991 IRV (equivalent to ANSI X3.4) and characters 128 to 255 being identical to those values of ISO 8859-1. ISO/IEC 15438 Bar code symbology specification-PDF417: Latin 1 character set to 1994 specification with GLI rules.
ECI 000002: PC437 (code table equivalent to ECI 000000, without the reset-to-GLI 0 logic).
ECI 000003: ISO 8859-1 (code table equivalent to ECI 000001, without the reset-to-GLI 0 logic).
ECI 000004: ISO 8859-2 Latin-2 Central European
ECI 000005: ISO 8859-3 Latin-3 South European
ECI 000006: ISO 8859-4 Latin-4 North European
ECI 000007: ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic
ECI 000008: ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic
ECI 000009: ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek
ECI 000010: ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
ECI 000011: ISO 8859-9 Latin-5 Turkish
ECI 000012: ISO 8859-10 Latin-6 Nordic
ECI 000013: ISO 8859-11 Latin/Thai
ECI 000015: ISO 8859-13 Latin-7 Baltic Rim
ECI 000016: ISO 8859-14 Latin-8 Celtic
ECI 000017: ISO 8859-15 Latin-9
ECI 000018: ISO 8859-16 Latin-10 South-Eastern European
ECI 000020: Shift JIS (JIS X 0208 Annex 1 + JIS X 0201)
ECI 000021: Windows 1250 Latin 2 (Central Europe) 2001-02-12
ECI 000022: Windows 1251 Cyrillic 2001-02-12
ECI 000023: Windows 1252 Latin 1 2001-02-12
ECI 000024: Windows 1256 Arabic
ECI 000025: ISO/IEC 10646 UCS-2 (High order octet first)
ECI 000026: ISO/IEC 10646 UTF-8