MW6 PDF417 ActiveX is a powerful ATL-based control for handling PDF417 2D barcode and can be used in any ActiveX-compliant environment such as Word, Access, Excel, VB.NET, C#.NET, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Delphi or C++ Builder.
PDF417 is a multi-row, variable-length symbology offering high data capacity and error-correction capability, it is capable of encoding 1100 bytes, 1800 ASCII characters, or 2700 digits.
Every PDF417 symbol is composed of a stack of rows, from a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 90 rows, a PDF417 symbol character consists 17 modules arranged into 4 bars and 4 spaces.