Everything about PDF417

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: PDF417A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Precise Localization of PDF417 Code Based on Fast Hough TransformInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Automate the Boring Stuff with PythonThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Encoding and Decoding Graphical Chemical Structures as Two-Dimensional (PDF417) BarcodesCited 17 times
5. Go sideways: MicroPDF417A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Han Xin codeA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Encoding and Decoding Graphical Chemical Structures as Two-Dimensional (PDF417) Barcodes

  M. Karthikeyan, Andreas Bender · 2005 · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling · 17 citations

• Algorithm of a Perspective Transform-Based PDF417 Barcode Recognition

  Young Jung Kim, Jong Yun Lee · 2016 · Wireless Personal Communications · 8 citations

• Location Algorithm of PDF417 Based on Wavelet Multi-resolution Analysis

  Pei-Zhuo LV · 2008 · Acta Automatica Sinica · 4 citations

• Application of PDF417 symbology for ‘DNA Barcoding’

  N. Pradeep Kumar, A.R. Rajavel, P. Jambulingam · 2008 · Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine · 4 citations

• PDF417 portable data files a new dimension in barcodes

  Mark Marriott · 1995 · Sensor Review · 3 citations

• PDF417 Barcode and its Application in Aviation Spare Parts Management

  Xu Sheng Gan, Jing Shun Duanmu, Jian Guo Gao · 2013 · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2 citations

• An improvement for PDF417 code authentication on mobile phone terminals based on code feature analysis and watermarking

  De Li, Lu Zhang, Xun Jin · 2022 · Multimedia Systems · 2 citations

• PDF417 Angle Detection under Complex Background Based On Morphology and Genetic Algorithms Work

  Wang guocheng, Li jianhua, Chen yi · 2012 · Procedia Engineering · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Precise Localization of PDF417 Code Based on Fast Hough Transform

  · 2024 · Bulletin of the South Ural State University. Series "Computational Mathematics and Software Engineering" · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Automate the Boring Stuff with PythonAl Sweigart · 2015
• Ik ben het zelf :Anthonie Roose · 2025
• Atualidade do Direito PúblicoCAED-Jus · 2017
• 'Those Who Suffer Much, Know Much' · 2010
• Guida di Writer Italiano - LibreOfficeLibreOffice · 2013
• Learn Excel 2010 essential skills with the Smart methodMike Smart · 2011

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