An optical pattern that encodes a URL for recognition by mobile phone cameras, enabling the user to access a web page by scanning the code with the telephone.
Example sentencesExamples
Someone slipped me an email on semacode, so I decided to look into it.
You create your order on your iPhone and when you're done, the app produces a semacode. You then bypass the queue at the counter and swipe the semacode over a sensor.
There are two steps used to retrieve the URL from the semacode: image recognition and decoding.
Definition of semacode in US English:
semacode
nounˈseməˌkōd
An optical pattern that encodes a URL for recognition by mobile phone cameras, enabling the user to access a web page by scanning the code with the telephone.
Example sentencesExamples
Someone slipped me an email on semacode, so I decided to look into it.
There are two steps used to retrieve the URL from the semacode: image recognition and decoding.
You create your order on your iPhone and when you're done, the app produces a semacode. You then bypass the queue at the counter and swipe the semacode over a sensor.