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PDF417 has been designed to provide a symbol with high data capacity. It has been specified as the symbology for shipping data in ISO 15394 and for “portable database” applications. In California, drivers’ licenses contain personal identification data encoded as PDF417.
Encodable character set: US ASCII (ISO 646) (0 – 127) plus PC 437 values (128 – 255). Numeric and byte data may also be encoded efficiently.
No. of rows: |
3 – 90 |
subject to ([No. of rows] x [No. of columns]) <= 928 |
No. of columns: |
1 – 30 |
subject to ([No. of rows] x [No. of columns]) <= 928 |
Quiet Zone: |
2X (where X = 1 module width) on each of the four sides |
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Maximal Data Per Symbol (@ error correction level 0): |
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Numeric: |
2710 digits |
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Alphanumeric: |
1850 characters |
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Full & Extended ASCII: |
Not directly calculable |
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Byte: |
1108 bytes |
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