Information technology — Automatic identification and

data capture techniques — JAB Code polychrome bar code

symbology specification

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1 Scope

This document defines the requirements for the symbology known as JAB Code. It specifies the JAB

Code symbology characteristics, symbol structure, symbol dimensions, symbol cascading rules, data

character encodation, error correction rules, user-selectable application parameters, print quality

requirements and a reference decode algorithm.