🧾 Description
Many times our customers ask us to enable the AIM Code Identifier for a certain family of codes, more appropriately called code symbology, or more often they ask us to add certain characters as prefix to certain codes, well what is the AIM Code Identifier and how to find out if it is they request or just a prefix of some kind?
AIM (@AIMGLOBAL.ORG) Stands for Advanced Identification Matters, is the organization that developed this standard, in order to make internationally recognized consistent information on barcodes.
Tha AIM Code Identifier (in short AIM ID) is a 3 characters ISO/IEC identifier generated by the decoder of the scanner, and provides us with information about the family/symbology of the barcode we just scanned.
The AIM ID is not a part of a barcode, it is the decoding process that adds that information to the result, if we appropriately implement it.
When faced with a request concerning ad hoc prefixes, we can compare our customer´s request (as many customer will know that they need in front of the code, they might not know it is the AIM ID for that symbology of codes) to the AIM_ID for the particular Symbology to see if they match, and if they do we will only need to activate the transmission of it.
The implementation process, for what concerns Hand Held Devices, can be done both with programming codes, found in the Product Reference Guide of every specific product, or by using Aladdin.
Here below a visual explanation, with the correspondent AIM IDs for the codes presented. Kind courtesy of our dear colleague Martina Pittori.