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QR Code is widely used in our everyday life. As a two-dimensional barcode, it can store more data than 1D barcodes. It can be captured using a camera and then be decoded using image processing methods. Reading QR codes in the real world is a challenging job. For example, the...
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If you search for passport scanner software or MRZ reader software, you will find many of them are only available for mobile devices. For police officers, scanning passports by mobile devices is convenient when they are patrolling. However, for customs and immigration officers, they usually use desktop system and professional...
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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...
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A few days ago, I wrote a blog post about how to implement a desktop barcode reader application using Qt and C++. The application only supports still image mode. In this article, I am going to add a webcam support to empower the application to scan barcodes in real time....
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The Clipboard API allows web applications to read and write the clipboard’s contents, which makes it convenient to paste scanned documents to other applications like Word, email clients and load images from the clipboard in a Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT) application. Here is a demo video of copying scanned documents...
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Updated in 2021: The Dynamsoft Barcode Reader now has mobile native SDKs supporting Android and iOS. The Dynamsoft Barcode Reader now has a JavaScript SDK which makes it possible to read barcodes on the browser. The Dynamsoft Barcode Reader now has an official Java SDK. The article and the code...
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No matter which edition of Dynamsoft Barcode SDK you use, the underlying algorithm interfaces are all implemented in C/C++. To evaluate Dynamsoft barcode SDK precisely, you’d better get started with the C++ libraries. However, there is only a command-line sample available in the SDK package. I have been tired of...
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Dynamic Web TWAIN (DWT)’s Remote Scan feature makes it possible to scan documents from your scanner or multi-function printer (MFP) directly to any device. You may wonder what other network scanning options exist. This article is going to give a brief overview of scanning over the network and why DWT’s...
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Last week, I built a simple Android application with Dynamsoft camera SDK and OCR SDK to recognize passport MRZ. To facilitate Flutter development, I determined to make a Flutter plugin for wrapping Dynamsoft OCR SDK this week. Since there has been an official Flutter camera plugin available for download on...
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Previously, I wrote a post about how to recognize passport MRZ from an image file using C++. In this post, I will create a more productive Android app, which utilizes camera to recognize MRZ. Requirements Dynamsoft OCR SDK Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer Getting Started with Android Camera View Android camera2 API...