Overview

The AIDC Toolkit is a comprehensive set of libraries for integrating Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) functionality into web-based applications. The libraries are published as npm packages and full source code is available on GitHub.

Roadmap

Highlights

Release	Date	Features
1.0.0	2024Q4	Utility library GS1 library Full-featured demo application English and French localization
1.1.0	2024Q4	Microsoft Excel add-in integration Google Sheets add-on integration
1.2.0	2025Q1	GS1 element string generation and parsing GS1 Digital Link generation and parsing
2.0.0	2025	Top secret (but it's going to be big)

Packages

The AIDC Toolkit is broken up into a number of packages, each of which builds on the ones that come before. It's not necessary to have a full understanding of all packages in order to use develop code using the AIDC Toolkit, and where critical "must know" information is presented, it is called out.

Name	Description
dev	Shared development artefacts. If you're not developing or maintaining the AIDC Toolkit, this package may be ignored.
core	Core functionality. Specifically, this package is responsible for internationalization and applications built on the AIDC Toolkit must initialize internationalization first via this package.
utility	Foundational utilities. This package provides classes to manipulate integers and strings, independently of any AIDC problem domain.
gs1	GS1 AIDC Toolkit. This package is essentially an implementation of the identification portions of the GS1 General Specifications A working knowledge of the GS1 identification system is necessary to use this package.

Last modified: 14 January 2025