Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK v11, part of the Dynamsoft Capture Vision (DCV) framework, brings a major architectural upgrade for building barcode and QR code scanning applications on desktop, mobile, and web platforms. The v11 C++ SDK introduces the CCaptureVisionRouter as the central orchestration engine. As an enterprise-class C++ barcode and...

US driver’s licenses store personal information using PDF417 barcode symbology according to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) specification. This comprehensive guide shows you how to build a production-ready Android driver’s license scanner app with camera resolution options (720P/1080P) to compare scanning performance between Dynamsoft Capture Vision and...

In the world of Python barcode scanning, developers have several options to choose from, including ZXing, ZBar, and the Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. Each of these libraries offers unique strengths, catering to different needs and environments. ZXing and ZBar are popular open-source options, known for their community-driven development and flexibility. On...

When working with barcode detection in real-world applications, developers often encounter scenarios where standard settings fall short. Images with poor lighting, low quality, skewed angles, or complex backgrounds can make accurate detection extremely challenging. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader offers a robust set of parameters that can be fine-tuned to optimize performance...

When scanning barcodes in production (warehouse, logistics, healthcare, retail), image quality issues like blur, motion, glare, low contrast, or physical damage can cause even strong barcode algorithms to fail. Fortunately, most linear (1D) barcodes also include human-readable text. That text becomes a powerful assist layer: if the barcode fails, OCR...

In the rapidly evolving world of software development, SDK providers frequently release new versions with performance improvements, bug fixes, and enhanced features. However, developers often struggle to quantify the actual benefits of upgrading to newer versions. In this article, we’ll take Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK as an example to explore...

The Dynamsoft Python Barcode SDK, now part of the Dynamsoft Capture Vision Bundle, provides APIs for reading 1D and 2D barcodes from various image and PDF files. This tutorial demonstrates how to build both a command-line tool and a GUI application to read barcodes from PDF documents using the Dynamsoft...

Barcode generators are essential tools in various scenarios. A typical use case is testing barcode reader and scanner SDKs. In this tutorial, we’ll build a Windows Forms application that can both generate and read barcodes using two popular .NET Barcode SDKs: ZXing.NET and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. ZXing.NET offers both barcode...

Starting from .NET 9, there is a new HybridWebView control in MAUI which makes it easy to host arbitrary HTML/JS/CSS content in a web view, and enables communication between the code in the web view (JavaScript) and the code that hosts the web view (C#/.NET). In this article, we are...

GS1 is a global organization that develops and maintains supply chain standards, including barcode formats. Its system is widely adopted across industries to identify products, logistics units, locations, and more. A key part of this system is the GS1 Application Identifier (AI) — a standardized prefix that specifies the type...

FastAPI is a modern, async-ready Python web framework for building APIs. It wraps low-level ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) interfaces and is built on top of Starlette and Pydantic. The combination of FastAPI and Uvicorn is ideal for creating high-performance web applications. In this article, you’ll learn how to build...

vCard, also known as VCF (“Virtual Contact File”), is a file format standard for electronic business cards. The following is an example of the content of a vCard file: BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:4.0 FN:Simon Perreault N:Perreault;Simon;;;ing. jr,M.Sc. BDAY:--0203 GENDER:M EMAIL;TYPE=work:simon.perreault@viagenie.ca END:VCARD Widely used in business and personal networking, vCards can be shared...

.NET MAUI is designed for cross-platform development, but achieving seamless compatibility across all platforms isn’t always straightforward. While developers might assume cross-platform apps are easy to build with .NET MAUI, many existing libraries were initially tailored for Xamarin and remain limited to Android and iOS. Creating a unified .NET MAUI...

In the previous article, we talked about how to convert an image to black and white with a threshold. It may not work well with images having uneven lighting in tasks like barcode reading. For example, if we convert the following QR code with shadow to black and white with...

Dynamsoft provides two NuGet packages for .NET MAUI development: Dynamsoft.BarcodeReaderBundle.Maui and Dynamsoft.DotNet.BarcodeReader.Bundle. The former targets Android and iOS, while the latter is built for Windows. In this article, we will demonstrate how to use Windows Media API to capture video frames from a USB camera and integrate Dynamsoft Barcode Reader...

In this article, we are going to create a lightning web component to scan barcodes in Salesforce, the famous CRM system, so that we can quickly input data. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader is used for barcode scanning. Because Dynamsoft Barcode Reader uses WASM, which cannot run in Salesforce LWC by default,...

DotCode is two-dimensional (2D) matrix barcode mainly used in the tobacco industry with advantages like the ability to apply the barcode by high-speed industrial printers and other methods like laser engraving. Below is a pack of cigarettes with a DotCode representing its unique identifier. In this article, we are going...

Nuxt is a free and open-source framework with an intuitive and extendable way to create type-safe, performant and production-grade full-stack web applications and websites with Vue.js. In this article, we are going to build a barcode and QR code scanner using Nuxt.js. Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer is used to access the...

UPC is a type of barcode widely used to identify retail products while EAN is a superset of it adding an extra digit to the beginning. EAN-13 and UPC-A are the common versions while EAN-8 and UPC-E are the less used versions for small packages. An EAN or a UPC...

Among the Python barcode SDKs available, only a few support ARM32 and ARM64 architectures. The Dynamsoft Barcode Reader stands out as the premier commercial SDK offering robust 1D and 2D barcode recognition for ARM32 and ARM64 devices. This article guides you through creating ARM32 and ARM64 emulated environments on Windows,...

Recently, Dynamsoft released a new .NET MAUI Barcode SDK for building barcode scanning applications on Android and iOS. In this tutorial, we will use Visual Studio Code to create a .NET MAUI Barcode Scanner from scratch. Our application will decode barcodes and QR codes from both image files and camera...

OpenCV is a powerful library capable of handling a wide range of computer vision tasks. However, its comprehensive functionality can result in a large library size, which may be excessive for applications that only require cross-platform camera streaming. In this article, we will demonstrate how to slim down OpenCV to...

This tutorial walks through building a real-time webcam barcode reader for Windows desktop using C#, the DirectShow.NET library, and the Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK. DirectShow.NET captures video frames from a USB webcam, while the Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK decodes 1D and 2D barcodes from each frame. This approach is ideal...

Rust’s popularity continues to surge in the systems programming world due to its unique combination of memory safety, performance, and concurrency. This comprehensive article demonstrates how to integrate Rust with the Dynamsoft Capture Vision Router SDK using FFI (Foreign Function Interface) bindings. We’ll build a robust command-line barcode reader that...

In the previous article, we talked about what is QR code, its modes for encoding the data, and how to generate QR codes in Python. In this article, we are going to build an online QR code generator to make it convenient to generate QR codes in the browser. We...

A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form. There are all kinds of barcodes and mainly, they can be divided into 1D barcodes and 2D barcodes. We can get binary data from barcodes and there are different ways to interpret the data....

A QR code (quick-response code) is a type of two-dimensional matrix barcode. It uses four standardized modes of encoding: numeric, alphanumeric, byte or binary, and kanji. Its highest storage capacity can be 2,953 bytes. What you’ll build: A Python script that generates QR codes in all five encoding modes —...

Zapier is a workflow automation platform. It has integrated over 6000 applications and we can chain different applications in the same workflow without writing code. In this article, we are going to build a Zapier app integration to scan barcodes. We can scan barcodes in a web application and the...

Gemini is Google’s latest AI model, which can be used for free with a limit of 60 queries per minute, and is capable of recognizing text from images. Generally, 1D barcodes are accompanied by human-readable text, which can be used to verify the accuracy of barcode recognition results. In this...

In our previous article, we mentioned how to create a Web Barcode Scanner using RazorBarcodeLibrary. The library is built on top of the Dynamsoft JavaScript Barcode SDK, which encapsulates the camera access and barcode reading logic in JavaScript. In fact, Dynamsoft also provides an independent JavaScript camera library, named Dynamsoft...

OpenCV is an open-source computer vision and machine learning software library and has a basic barcode reading ability. It has a QR Code detector added in 2018 and a barcode detector added in 2021 which supports detecting and decoding of EAN-13, EAN-8, and UPC-A barcodes. It has a JavaScript version...

Dynamsoft’s official C++ Barcode SDK provides only command line samples in C++, which are not user-friendly for selecting image files and displaying results. The Win32 API (Windows API) is a core set of application programming interfaces primarily used for developing Windows GUI applications in C and C++. This article will...

In the previous article, we built a simple barcode reader server in Python and deployed it on Vercel. In this article, we are going to deploy it on AWS Lambda to provide a serverless barcode reading interface. What you’ll build: A serverless REST API on AWS Lambda that accepts a...

GS1 is a not-for-profit, international organization developing and maintaining its own standards for barcodes. GS1 defines the rules to encode a barcode content so that it contains information about a product: its GTIN (Global Trade Item Number), the weight or dimensions of the item, its price, the lot/batch code, the...

Recently, Dynamsoft rolled out C++ Barcode SDK v10.0. This version has been entirely re-written in C++, providing an entirely new suite of APIs for barcode reading. However, if you’re using MinGW(Minimalist GNU for Windows) to code with this SDK, such as integrating it into a Qt project, you may encounter...

Glide is a no-code app builder which makes it easy to create apps. Dynamsoft is a partner of Glide to provide it with the barcode scanning feature based on its barcode reading SDK. In this article, we are going to use Glide to create a demo app which scans barcodes....

Microsoft Power Automate is a powerful service designed to automate workflows between various apps and services. Its Desktop version provides the added capability of automating desktop-centric operations, with or without user interface interactions. In this article, we will explore how to integrate Dynamsoft Barcode Reader, Dynamsoft Document Normalizer, and Dynamsoft...

In the previous article, we’ve created an Oracle APEX application to scan documents. In this article, we are going to add barcode scanning function to the Oracle APEX application with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. You can check out the video to see what it does. Prerequisites Get your trial license key....

If you are looking for the specification of South African driving license, you may be disappointed. There is no official reference except for the Stack Overflow Q&A, an incomplete document - ZA Drivers License format and a C# open source project. The Stack Overflow Q&A provides the RSA public key...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader, as an enterprise-class barcode and QR code SDK, supports many platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi OS, and Web) and programming languages (Python, Java, Swift, C#, Cpp, and JavaScript). There are many sample projects distributed in Dynamsoft GitHub repositories and official website. To help developers...

Barcodes and QR codes are essential tools across various industries, including healthcare, finance, and education. In this article, we’ll explore how to leverage Dynamsoft’s powerful barcode recognition technologies to create an online barcode and QR code scanning application using Python Django. This article is Part 4 in a 7-Part Series....

Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computing environment that lets you combine live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text in a single document. If you have Anaconda installed, Jupyter Notebook is included by default. This tutorial walks you through building a Python barcode scanner inside a Jupyter Notebook — upload...

PDF417 (Portable Data File 417) is a stacked linear barcode format widely used in transport, identification cards, and inventory management.1 Its high data capacity — up to 1,850 alphanumeric characters or 2,710 numeric digits — makes it the format of choice for applications that require storing large amounts of information...

In everyday life, we often use our smartphones to scan QR codes. However, when working on a computer, using a smartphone isn’t always the most convenient option for scanning QR codes that appear on your screen. Photos taken from monitors can have Moiré patterns, which can interfere with QR code...

Introduction Accuracy is a key metric of barcode reading SDKs. Given an image, a barcode engine should correctly detect whether one or more barcodes exist. If barcodes exist, the percentage of correct values returned dictates the accuracy. As a software developer, choosing a barcode SDK with the best combination of...

QR codes are a critical part of modern applications — from payment systems and ticketing to inventory management and document tracking. As a two-dimensional barcode, a QR code can store significantly more data than a 1D barcode and is decoded from a camera image using image processing algorithms. Choosing the...

The International Article Number (also known as European Article Number or EAN) is a standard describing a barcode symbology and numbering system used in global trade to identify a specific retail product type. The most commonly used EAN standard is the thirteen-digit EAN-13. 1 The 13-digit EAN-13 number consists of...

Qt Designer is a powerful tool for creating cross-platform graphical user interfaces (GUIs) using Qt widgets. In this guide, we’ll use Qt Designer to develop an advanced GUI for a Python-based barcode and QR code reader, leveraging the Dynamsoft Python Barcode SDK. This application will be compatible with Windows, Linux,...

If you’re aiming to develop a cross-platform GUI application using Python and Qt, your primary options are PyQt and PySide. Both offer Qt bindings for Python, but they differ mainly in licensing: PyQt5 requires either a GPL or a commercial license, while PySide6 is licensed under LGPL, making it more...

Apple announced new Mac models with Apple M1 chip recently. Although Dynamsoft has not released an Apple Silicon version of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK yet, I am curious how will x86_64 barcode SDK perform under Rosetta 2. In this article, I will build a simple command-line QR Code reader app...

Start and stop characters are defined by 1D (linear) barcode standards. Sometimes you’ll encounter nonstandard barcodes where these characters differ. This guide takes Code 39 as the example and shows how to decode such barcodes in Python with the Dynamsoft Barcode Reader (via the Dynamsoft Capture Vision Bundle) by supplying...