title: Boxing barcode
text: # Boxing barcode
  
  Boxing is high-capacity 2D barcode. The flexible barcode format is fully customizable in terms of frame geometry, number of symbols per pixel and forward-error-correction (FEC) method. This makes it a suitable choice for storing large amounts of any kind of digital data on storage mediums such paper, photographic film or similar.
  
  ## Applications
  
  Boxing barcode is used on piqlFilm by Piql AS to store many infos in Arctic World Archive:
  
  * the Vatican Library
  * the photographic collection
  * GitHub
  * and other
  
  ## Format
  
  The Boxing barcode used in the piqlFilm consists 4096 rows and 2160 cols. Each frame has:
  
  * border
  * four corner marks
  * external bars (reference, calibration, structural metadata, human-readable)
  * data container
  * sync points
  