Wand Scanner

Wand Scanner

Pen-shaped scanners are usually known as wand scanners.A pen-shaped scanner consist of a light source and photodiode that are placed next to each other in the tip of a pen or wand. To read a bar code, the person holding the pen must move the tip of it across the bars at a relatively uniform speed. The photodiode measures the intensity of the light reflected back from the light source as the tip crosses each bar and space in the printed code. The photodiode generates a waveform that is used to measure the widths of the bars and spaces in the bar code. Dark bars in the bar code absorb light and white spaces reflect light so that the voltage waveform generated by the photo diode is a representation of the bar and space pattern in the bar code. This waveform is decoded by the scanner in a manner similar to the way Morse code dots and dashes are decoded.

Wand Scanner

Wand Scanner

Wand Scanner

Wand Scanner

Wand Scanner

Wand Scanner

Wand Scanner

Wand Scanner

Wand Scanner

Wand Scanner