Comparison

with Barcodes & QR Codes

• Barcodes and QR codes can be read only by machines; they cannot be spoken, memorized, or manually relayed by humans.
• WCodes can be read by machines, but the required optical or voice recognition system is more complex.
• WCodes have a larger physical print footprint than dense 2D matrix codes.

with Spelling Alphabets

• Every word of a spelling alphabet represents only a single character of the original message.
  Whereas a single word of a WCode encodes 10 bits of data (more than one alphanumeric character) — making messages significantly shorter.
• WCodes can represent arbitrary binary data directly.