Private company
Semacode
Semacode was a software company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, known for a product with the same trade name – machine-readable ISO/IEC 16022 Data Matrix barcodes, which are used to encode Internet URLs. Semacodes were primarily aimed at being used with cellular phones which have built-in cameras, to quickly capture a Web site address for use in the phone's web browser. The system was created by Simon Woodside after he was thinking of a follow up to the use of CueCat barcode scanners.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- HeadquartersOntario1
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Semacode was a software company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, known for a product with the same trade name – machine-readable ISO/IEC 16022 Data Matrix barcodes, which are used to encode Internet URLs.2
Links
- WikipediaSemacode
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ251486
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- 1WikidataSemacode on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaSemacode on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsSemacode photo by unknown, Public domain