Metrologic Instruments, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of bar code scanning and high-speed automated data capture solutions using laser, holographic, and vision-based technologies. The company provides imaging and scanning solutions for point-of-sale, commercial, and industrial applications. It offers 1D and 2D bar code reading, optical character recognition, image lift, and parcel dimensioning and singulation detection services for customers in retail, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, and postal and parcel delivery industries. It operates in two segments, Data Capture and Collection, and Industrial Automation and Optical Systems. The Data Capture and Collection segment products include bar code scanners, OEM bar code reading engines, and portable data collection devices. Bar code scanners are handheld scanners for retail point-of-sale, document processing, library, healthcare, and inventory applications; or fixed projection scanners for supermarkets, convenience stores, mass merchandisers, health clubs, and specialty retailers. The OEM bar code reading engines are used in various devices and machines, such as mobile computing devices, PDAs, kiosks, and lottery terminals. Portable data collection devices are handheld computers used in data management applications, such as supply chain inventory and price lookup. The Industrial Automation and Optical Systems segment offers fixed position readers, as well as advanced electro-optical systems, including wavefront sensors, adaptive optics systems, and custom instrumentation. It sells its products and services worldwide directly to end users and original equipment manufacturers, as well as through a network of distributors and value-added resellers. Metrologic’s markets its products in the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and Asia-Pacific. The company was founded by C. Harry Knowles in 1968 and is headquartered in Blackwood, New Jersey.