Introduction; Powerscan® Pd8530 Family Description; Package Contents - Datalogic PowerScan PD8530 Reference Manual

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INTRODUCTION

1.1 POWERSCAN® PD8530 FAMILY DESCRIPTION
The PowerScan® PD8530 Family Hand-Held Reader packs a lot of performance into
an attractive, rugged, hand-held device. It operates in commercial and industrial
environments as well as the front office.
Omni-directional
Operating
Decoding
and
Imaging
Flash Memory
USA Driver
License Parsing
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PACKAGE CONTENTS

The following parts are included in the PowerScan® PD8530 package contents:
 PowerScan® PD8530 Hand-Held Reader
 CD-ROM containing the PowerScan® PD8530 Configuration Tools software and
PowerScan® PD8530 Reference Manual
 PowerScan® PD8530 Quick Reference Manual
You may want to save your packing material in case you need to ship the reader at
some later time.
To read a symbol or capture an image, you simply aim the
reader and pull the trigger. Since PowerScan® PD8530 Family
is a powerful omni-directional reader, the orientation of the
symbol is not important.
Thanks to powerful algorithms, PowerScan® PD8530 reliably
decodes all major 1D (linear) barcodes, 2D stacked codes (such
as PDF417), 2D matrix symbols (such as DataMatrix), postal
codes (such as POSTNET, PLANET). The data stream —
acquired from decoding a symbol — is rapidly sent to the host.
The reader is immediately available to read another symbol.
PowerScan® PD8530 can also function as a camera by
capturing images of labels, signatures, and other items.
Flash technology allows to upgrade the PowerScan® PD8530
reader as new symbologies are supported or as improved
decoding algorithms become available.
The PowerScan® PD8530 reader can be set up to select and
output a subset of data elements from USA Driver License
PDF417 barcodes. This feature can be enabled using either
Datalogic Aladdin™ or the barcodes in the USA Driver License
Parsing Quick Reference Guide (QRG), available on the
Datalogic website.
INTRODUCTION
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