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OPTICON Universal menu book

U81

3.3.26. Options for PDF417

PDF417 is variable size multi row (stacked)
symbology with selectable error correction
levels.

Maximum data capacity:
• text compaction: 1850 characters
• byte compaction: 1108 characters
• numeric compaction: 2710 characters

Symbol size:
• number of row: 3 up to 90
• number of columns: 1 up to 30

Error correction:
8 levels of error correction. Option for error
detection only.

Additional features:
• extended Channel Interpretation (ECI):

support for different character sets and data
interpretations

• macro PDF417: represent data in up to

99.999 PDF417 symbols

• 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:
• ASCII values 0 - 127 ( ISO 646 )
• ASCII values 128 - 255 ( ISO 8859-1, Latin

alphabet No. 1, extended ASCII )

• for macro PDF417: many other character

sets

For string format see figure 3.52

Options for PDF417:
• macro PDF417 timeout ( same as Structured

append time out ): see read mode options

• 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:
• text compaction: 250 characters
• byte compaction: 150 characters
• numeric compaction:366 characters

Symbol size:
• number of row: 4 up to 44
• number of columns: 1 up to 4

Error correction:
Number of error correction codewords is
dependent of symbol size and can not be
changed.

Additional features:
• extended Channel Interpretation (ECI):

support for different character sets and data
interpretations

• macro MicroPDF417 ( structured append

mode ): represent data in up to 99.999
MicroPDF417 symbols

Support for these options is reader dependent.
The supported character set and the maximum
decodable number of characters, is reader
dependent

Encodable characters:
• ASCII values 0 - 127 ( ISO 646 )
• ASCII values 128 - 255 ( ISO 8859-1, Latin

alphabet No. 1, extended ASCII )

• for macro MicroPDF417: many other

character sets

For string format see figure 3.53.

Options for MicroPDF417:
• macro MicroPDF417 timeout ( same as

Structured append time out ): see read mode
options

• no further options available

Fig. 3.52. Options for PDF417

data

(1 upto 2710 characters)

PDF417

Fig. 3.53. Options for MicroPDF417

data

(1 upto 366 characters)

MicroPDF417