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Additional features:
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extended Channel Interpretation (ECI): support for different character sets and
data interpretations
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macro PDF417: represent data in up to 99.999 PDF417 symbols
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truncated PDF417: reduce some overhead to obtain smaller symbology size
Support for these options is reader dependent. The supported character set and the
maximum decodable number of characters, is reader dependent
Encodable characters:
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ASCII values 0 - 127 ( ISO 646 )
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ASCII values 128 - 255 ( ISO 8859-1, Latin alphabet No. 1, extended ASCII )
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for macro PDF417: many other character sets
For string format see figure 3.52
Options for PDF417:
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macro PDF417 timeout ( same as Structured append time out ): see read mode
options
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no further options available
3.3.27. Options for MicroPDF417
MicroPDF417 is variable size multi row (stacked) symbology with fixed error
correction levels.
Maximum data capacity:
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text compaction: 250 characters
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byte compaction: 150 characters
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numeric compaction:366 characters
Symbol size:
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number of row: 4 up to 44
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number of columns: 1 up to 4
Error correction:
Number of error correction codewords is dependent of symbol size and cannot be
changed.