1. A window for reducing specular reflections, mountable in a symbology reader, the symbology reader having an illuminating light source within a housing producing a beam of unpolarized light directed along a predetermined optical path toward a target object for illumination a symbology on the target object, and a detector assembly for receiving light reflected by the symbology in the optical path, comprising: a planar lens mountable to the housing, the lens including a first area and a second area, the first area being positioned in the optical path, and the second area being positioned between the target object and the detector assembly to receive light reflected from the target object when illuminated by the light source; a first polarizer at the first area of the lens, the first polarizer being oriented to transmit light substantially of a first polarization; and a second polarizer at the second area of the lens, the second polarizer being oriented to transmit light of a second polarization substantially orthogonal to the first polarization.