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I can't figure out a barcode that would support ~3500 chars.

The barcode should contain 40 strings with caret return, each 76 chars long. Each string will look like this:

  • 16N00001CGTXH60G2YE1NKL20518048000183150155491553423519964186228580116N00000

Each string has different numbers and letters.

I tried to generate a QRCode but it supported only 1909 chars. A PDF 417 didn't work either. I'm not familiar with any others unfortunately.

Question: What barcode can support ~3500 chars? Or at least my minimum 3118 chars?

The point is to have a single barcode for a pack of 40 bottles (40 strings) to stick to the package.

I tried generating QR with DelphiZXingQRCode, Fito Utility for F-Print, and Online QR code generators. I tried in UTF-8 and also in ASCII and Unicode, none of these support these 40 strings.

Christophe
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SovereignSun
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You are approaching this incorrectly, and I surmise it is because you are taking the requirements of your stakeholder too literally.

This is what you need to do...

  1. Save all the information you are trying to put in a barcode in a database and associate it with shorter a unique id.

  2. When the barcode is scanned, use the unique id to look up the information in the database

  3. Display the information you looked up to the end user.

No one will know or care that you did not put the information into the barcode.

TheCatWhisperer
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