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Samples of a Boxing frame
Boxing is high-capacity 2D barcode.[1][2] The flexible barcode format is fully customizable in terms of frame geometry, number of symbols per pixel and forward-error-correction (FEC) method. This makes it a suitable choice for storing large amounts of any kind of digital data on storage mediums such paper, photographic film or similar.
Applications
Boxing barcode is used on piqlFilm by Piql AS to store a large volume of information in the Arctic World Archive:
- the Vatican Library[3]
- the photographic collection[4]
- GitHub[5]
- and other
Format
The Boxing barcode used in the piqlFilm consists 4096 rows and 2160 cols. Each frame has:
- border
- four corner marks
- external bars (reference, calibration, structural metadata, human-readable)
- data container
- sync points
References
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