Saturday, August 11, 2007
Library Card Barcode
I hate carrying around a lot of plastic cards, so I print important numbers on a piece of paper and carry that around instead.
This works fine except for my library card which has a barcode.
I tried scanning the card but when printed, the barcode wasn't very clear.
So I downloaded a free codabar barcode font and encoded "A12345678901234A" (begin and end with A and 14 digits in between).
The Redwood City Public Library (the Peninsula Library System) uses this barcode format, but many other libraries use it too.
This works fine except for my library card which has a barcode.
I tried scanning the card but when printed, the barcode wasn't very clear.
So I downloaded a free codabar barcode font and encoded "A12345678901234A" (begin and end with A and 14 digits in between).
The Redwood City Public Library (the Peninsula Library System) uses this barcode format, but many other libraries use it too.
