[1] The group specializes in the design and production of barcode readers, mobile computers, radio-frequency identification, sensors for detection, measurement and safety, vision and laser marking systems.

Datalogic products are used in many supermarkets and points of sale, at airports,[2] at shipping and postal services, and in factories[3] and hospitals worldwide.

[4][5][6] In 2023 the company recorded sales of €536.6 million:[7] Datalogic S.p.A. is listed on the STAR segment of the Italian Stock Exchange as DAL.MI.

[8] Datalogic was founded in 1972 by an engineer Romano Volta in a room in the rectory of the parish in Quarto Inferiore, on the outskirts of Bologna, in Italy.

A pack of chewing gum was scanned in a store in Troy, Ohio with a "Magellan Model-A": the world's first fixed retail scanner was signed by Datalogic.