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Motion detection can detect whether there is a change in the positions of objects. It can be achieved by many methods. For example, infrared light or laser technology can be used for optical detection. As for image processing methods, there is a basic one by a fixed camera, w ...

Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer (DCE) provides high-level APIs for developers to quickly create a camera application, such as a barcode scanner and a text scanner.

If you are looking for a JavaScript barcode scanner SDK, Dynamsoft JavaScript Barcode SDK is no doubt the best. The SDK enables developers to quickly build web barcode scanner applications with a few lines of code. Besides, it authorizes developers to use the SDK for 7 days w ...

The Flutter barcode SDK series is coming to the end. This week, we switch the coding environment to macOS to finish the rest of the plugin platforms - iOS and macOS - using Swift.

In the B4X developing suite, B4J is used to develop desktop apps based on JavaFX or server apps based on Jetty. By default, it cannot be used to create web applications without a server. A third-party library, BANano, makes this possible. It can transpile everything you write ...

In the previous article, we created a Dynamsoft Barcode Reader library for B4X. Here, we are gonna use the library to create a barcode scanner which reads barcodes from the camera stream.

For the past several weeks, the Flutter plugin of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader has covered Windows, Android and Web. This week, we go through the plugin implementation for Linux. Similar to Windows, we combine Dart and C++ code for Linux. The unexpected thing is the C++ data type ...

B4X is a set of rapid development tools which can be used to develop apps for all the major mobile and desktop platforms.

Have you had such an experience that you need to scan a QR code displayed on a screen in the front of a meeting room but you sat in the back? You opened the barcode scanning app and aimed it at the code, but it just couldn’t read the code. Of course, it is better to make the ...

This week, I made a new attempt, integrating Dynamsoft JavaScript Barcode SDK into the ongoing Flutter barcode plugin project. It is exciting to be capable of building web barcode reader apps with the same decodeFile() method used for mobile and desktop development.

Last week, I wrote a step-by-step tutorial sharing how to build a Flutter barcode SDK plugin with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. The platform-specific code of Android is done. This week, I am going to focus on Windows desktop. Since the Flutter desktop plugin development is still ...

About two years ago, I wrote an article sharing how to build a Flutter barcode plugin with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader step by step. At that time, Flutter was still under development and only supported Android and iOS. Nowadays, Google has released Flutter 2, which allows develo ...

Camera control and barcode reading are two essential parts of a barcode scanner.

Xamarin is a cross-platform framework for building Android and iOS apps using .NET programming. The code structure of Xamarin Android and Xamarin iOS is different. For developers who want to construct UI for Android and iOS from a single codebase, Xamarin.Forms is the only so ...

The accuracy of optical character recognition (OCR) is sensitive to text orientation. If a text image file is rotated by 90°, 180° or 270°, and there is no EXIF information, it would be challenging to doing text recognition. In case of text around barcode, the combination of ...

This article will guide you through the creation of a JavaFX GUI barcode reading application (as shown below) using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK (DBR) and vlcj.

QR code can store much more data than 1D code. But do you know how much data it can represent?

Dynamsoft provides Java Barcode SDKs for both mobile and desktop development. The mobile edition is distributed as an Android AAR package, and the desktop edition is distributed as a JAR package. This article aims to help developers who want to build desktop or server-side ba ...

Originally designed for the automotive industry1, QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response code) has become popular in various usage scenarios. QR codes can encode richer content than 1D barcodes, from website URLs to even a small image. They can be displayed on screens and p ...

Three years ago, I created a CMake project, aiming to build a C/C++ project with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Today, as the world’s top barcode SDK, Dynamsoft Barcode Reader has extended to more operating systems and CPU architectures: ARM32 Linux: ...

Qt Designer is a Qt tool for building cross-platform graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with Qt widgets. In this article, I will use the Qt designer to create an advanced desktop barcode reader app with Dynamsoft Python Barcode SDK for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Raspberry Pi OS ...

Someone may be curious about whether Intel-based Python apps can work well on Apple M1 Mac. I recently did a test with Dynamsoft Python Barcode SDK, which is built with native x86_64 libraries and CPython. It turned out that there was no issue using pip to install the wheel p ...

While scanning single or multiple barcodes with a barcode SDK, most of the developers only concern about the trade-off between decoding speed and recognition accuracy, for they cannot get other data. Since from version 8.0, Dynamsoft exposes more parameters and intermediate r ...

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 ...

Electron, one of the most popular cross-platform desktop application frameworks, has been used in numerous famous apps. With web technology, developers could rapidly build a product for Windows, macOS, and Linux. In this article, we would use Electron to build a barcode decod ...

The barcode localization algorithm is an essential step for barcode recognition within an image. However, for static images, the bigger size images have, the much more time the algorithm takes. Plus, the success rate of the algorithm may be interfered by the background color ...

RISC-V is a free and open RISC instruction set architecture. The RISC-V community and ecosystem are boosting and will flourish in the next couple of years. To facilitate barcode app development for RISC-V, Dynamsoft has kicked off the build of RISC-V barcode SDK. In this arti ...

Since from version 7.6.x, Dynamsoft Barcode Reader started to support ARM64 (Previously, ARM32 only). It is good news for developers who aim to build barcode reader app on embedded computing boards like Raspberry Pi and Nvidia Jetson Nano. In this article, I will guide you th ...

While using Salesforce, your management system can conveniently extend new functionalities by installing apps from Salesforce AppExchange - the Salesforce store. How can you build a Salesforce app by yourself? In this article, I will share how to create a barcode reader app f ...

Blazor is a web framework developed by Microsoft. It enables developers to create web apps using C# and HTML. However, calling existing JavaScript APIs is inevitable while developing a Blazor project. This article will help web developers who want to build web barcode reader ...

Generally, while doing barcode detection, we pass color images encoded in RGB or YUV to some barcode decoding APIs, in which the image data will be converted from color to grayscale and then from grayscale to binary. Operating pixels takes much CPU time. To accelerate image p ...

Many enterprises like to use Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK due to its flexible parameter configuration and powerful decoding capability for multiple barcodes. In this article, let’s take a glimpse of the barcode SDK template and the possible way to optimize the decoding perfor ...

Last week, I shared how to display webcam video in desktop and web apps. Based on that, I implemented the barcode reading function using Node.js. In this article, I will share how to build Node.js barcode reader apps for desktop and web with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK.

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article sharing how to read driver’s license information from PDF417 on Android. Comparing to building an Android native camera app, building a web camera app is much easier. In this article, let’s take a glimpse at a JavaScript sample, which is im ...

Start and stop characters are defined as part of linear barcode (1D barcode) standard. However, you may suffer from some nonstandard 1D barcode symbologies in which the start and stop characters are somehow changed. In this article, I will take Code39 as an example, demonstra ...

I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB model) and an I2C OLED display module. In this article, I will share how to implement a C/C++ barcode reader project on Raspberry Pi 4 from scratch.

According to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) specification, PDF417 symbology is used for storing personal information on US driver’s license. In this article, I will use Google mobile vision APIs to recognize a driver’s license.  Besides, I wi ...

When you want to release a proprietary tool or SDK, which is not open source, to Linux platforms, it is a nightmare. You have to make multiple packages and do more tests to guarantee compatibility for different Linux distributions. Is it possible to only create one pre-built ...

A dot code is a 2D barcode symbology composed of disconnected dots. It is widely used in the tobacco industry. Recently, Dynamsoft rolled out barcode reader SDK v7.4, which added DotCode support. In this post, I will share a command-line app and a GUI app, demonstrating how t ...

In Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK, there is a fancy webcam barcode sample called BarcodeReaderDemo that supports reading barcodes from disk files, TWAIN-compatible hardware scanners, and USB webcams. However, one thing you have to know is the functionality of acquiring images f ...

This article shows how to integrate Java barcode SDKs - ZXing and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader - to different Java applications.

Dynamsoft recently added a new panorama module to barcode SDK, aiming to provide a brand-new solution for warehouse and inventory management. In this article, I will try my best to guide you through the usage of Dynamsoft Panorama version 1.0, though the first version is not ...

There are many open-source and commercial barcode SDKs, but only a few of them can recognize multiple barcodes by scanning once. When you search Google for barcode SDK or Java barcode SDK, you will find Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK is always ranked in the top 5 of the search ...

Previously, I shared an article demonstrating how to use Tesseract Python OCR to recognize the accompanying text of a 1D barcode. In this article, I will change the programming language to JavaScript, creating a JavaScript barcode scan app integrated with Tesseract JavaScript ...

When creating a barcode reader app with a free barcode SDK, you may come up with ZXing instantly. ZXing is an open-source barcode reading and decoding library implemented in Java. There are some third-party projects, either ports or bindings, available for other programming l ...

When scanning barcodes, the recognition rate is affected by image quality. If a barcode image is severely damaged, the barcode algorithm may fail to work. Fortunately, most of the linear barcodes (1D barcodes) are printed with corresponding texts. OCR (optical character recog ...

MyGet is a universal package manager that allows you to create custom package feeds for Python, Maven, NuGet, npm, Bower, PHP, Vsix, and Ruby Gems.  For me, the most significant advantage of using MyGet is I can overwrite the package with the same version number comparing to ...

In India, the Aadhaar card is used to store people’s biometric and demographic data. This article shares how to create a simple web app to decode the QR code printed on the Aadhaar card using Dynamsoft JavaScript SDK, as well as how to extract the information from the barcode ...

Last month, Microsoft released .NET Core 3.0 that allows developers to port Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) projects to the .NET Core projects. However, the feature is still Windows-only, which may disappoint someone who wants to create cross-platform ...

WASI is a modular system interface, which aims to build runnable .wasm modules for any WASI-compliant runtime, not only for Node.js and web browsers. Although WASI is still in development and not stable yet, it is available for some experimental projects. In this article, I w ...

I think Flutter is vital for developers. Not only it supports fast building Android and iOS apps from a single codebase, but also it is used for building the upcoming Google Fuchsia apps. Like React Native and Cordova, the Flutter ecosystem consists of amounts of plugins, whi ...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader 7.0 brings a set of thread-based APIs for continuous frame management and corresponding barcode decoding. It extremely simplifies the programming complexity, especially for Python. It is known that Python’s GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) affects the pe ...

Previously, I shared an article demonstrating how to use Camera2 APIs and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader to build a simple Android barcode reader app. In that demo project, the barcode decoding part is implemented in Java, which apparently has room for improvement. If we can get th ...

Webpack is a JavaScript module bundler. It is widely used in web frameworks, such as React and Angular. This tutorial shows how to implement a simple web barcode reading app with webpack and Dynamsoft JavaScript Barcode library.

Assume you apply barcode technology to the logistics conveyor belt for scanning parcels. A problem you may face is how to recognize barcodes from blurred images. Although we can use advanced algorithms to deal with this complicated case, we’d better improve the image quality ...

If you want to use Raspberry Pi as an economical way of detecting barcodes, you can take account for Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK. As a business software, Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK is designed for overcoming a variety of complicated scenarios with sophisticated algorithms ...

Someone asked me how to create a real-time web barcode scanning app with a webcam. Is it hard to implement it? I’ve written an article sharing how to integrate Dynamsoft JavaScript Barcode Reader SDK into a React project. The remaining work is to make a webcam component. Sinc ...

In my previous article, I shared how to use PyQt and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader to create a simple Windows-styled GUI app to read barcodes from image files. Now I am going to add a little bit more code to scan barcodes from the webcam video stream.

AngularDart, similar to Angular built with TypeScript, is a web app framework written in Dartlang. It finally compiles to JavaScript.  In this article, I will share how to use Dynamsoft JavaScript Barcode SDK to create a simple web barcode reader app using AngularDart on Wind ...

This article shows how to use Dynamsoft C++ barcode reader SDK to create a Window runtime component, as well as how to use the WinRT component and JavaScript to build a UWP app on Windows 10.

Node-RED is a flow-based programming tool built-on Node.js. It provides a browser-based editor that helps users to create awesome applications by wiring different nodes. This article shares my experience of building a barcode node with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader on Windows.

If you are using React Native, you can quickly create a camera app with React Native Camera. In addition, React Native Camera component supports barcode scanning, face detection, and text recognition. This article shares how to replace the default barcode reading function wit ...

Some developers used JNA to call native C/C++ interfaces of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader in Java program. The app ran slowly and sometimes crashed. Based on the use case, I created a simple project for building JNA and JNI on Windows. The sample does not only show how to invoke n ...

A few days ago, I accepted a new challenge of creating a simple command line barcode reader using Rust and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK. Rust is a system programming language similar to C++. The learning process did not go through smoothly as I expected. It is not as easy as ...

The article is not about how to create Java native methods invoking C/C++ APIs. It aims to help developers to build a jar package containing JNI shared library, made with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader, for Windows, Linux, and macOS from scratch. I will demonstrate how to create JN ...

Web Worker is a way to run JavaScript in background threads. The worker thread can perform some heavy works without interfering with the user interface. This article shares how to load WebAssembly and invoke Dynamsoft JavaScript barcode APIs in a web worker.

A JavaScript barcode SDK can be built in C/C++ for high performance. We can compile C/C++ code to a Node.js addon or WebAssembly. Which one is superior? Let’s try Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK to find the answer.

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a revolutionary technology for Web development. It aims to execute at native speed in web browsers. With WebAssembly, it is convenient to port C/C++ code for web client and server applications. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader 6.2 is the most potent barcode SDK ...

ZXing is probably the most popular open source barcode SDK in the world. The library is written in Java and now has been ported to C++, .NET, Python, Objective-C, PHP and some other programming languages. Because ZXing is free, many developers would like to build barcode scan ...

When searching for barcode SDK online, you can find lots of free and commercial SDKs. However, there are only a few of SDKs cross-platform, which is why Dynamsoft Barcode Reader is outstanding. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK supports Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, and Ras ...

If you have tried out Dynamsoft Barcode Reader 6.0, you may have noticed the new template feature. The new SDK version supports importing parameters from JSON-format template files. How to create the template files? One way is to visit the barcode online demo, select some arg ...

Two years ago, I created a sample for demonstrating how to wrap Dynamsoft Barcode Reader 4.2, a C++ barcode library, as an extension for PHP5. How time flies, the latest barcode library is up to version 5.2. Meanwhile, many developers start to write web program in PHP7. This ...

Last week, I had successfully built JavaScript and WebAssembly ZXing barcode SDK. In this post, I will use the pure JavaScript barcode SDK to create a simple client-side HTML5 barcode reader app, which works in any WebRTC supported web browsers.

Dynamsoft finally released Barcode Reader SDK v5.2 for Raspberry Pi. It is time to make an update. In this post, I will show you how to install the SDK, as well as how to write a simple Raspberry Pi barcode app using C/C++ and Python.

A few weeks ago, Apple released Swift 4.0 which is available for macOS and Ubuntu 14/16. In this post, I will share how to implement a simple Swift barcode reader (command line tool) with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK for Linux.

From version 4.x to 5.x, Dynamsoft improved Barcode SDK performance with a big leap. Unfortunately, only Windows edition is available for download so far. In this post, I will share how to create a Node.js extension with the preview version of Dynamsoft Linux Barcode SDK 5.2. ...

This article is about how to use OpenCV and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK to create a Python barcode reader on macOS.

Chrome OS, developed by Google, is a light-weighted operating system based on the Linux kernel. It uses Chrome web browser as the user interface that primarily supports web applications released as Chrome extensions. However, Chrome extension is not fresh to me. When running ...

Last week I made a warm up for Kotlin, getting started to learn tutorials and reference. Now it is time to take the next step. Since Kotlin is hundred percent compatible with Java, we can use both programming languages without barriers in one project. In this article, I want ...

If you always stay tuned to Dynamsoft Barcode SDK, you should have noticed that starting with version 5.1, the SDK includes a JavaScript library which is similar to Dynamic Web TWAIN. The article aims to help developers get familiar with the relevant JavaScript Barcode APIs a ...

.NET Core empowers C# developers to build DotNet applications for Windows, Linux, and macOS using one codebase. In this article, I want to share how to create a cross-platform .NET Core barcode app with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK.

DBR 5.x is a big leap comparing to version 4.x. A lot of code has been refactored and optimized. This tutorial aims to help developers get familiar with new APIs, and learn how to build a Python barcode application using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK 5.0.

Last week, I shared how to build a simplest React Native component from scratch. Now I want to do something more complicated. I will link Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK, which released as an AAR bundle file, to a React Native Barcode project and write some Java code as the brid ...

Dynamsoft recently released Barcode Reader SDK v5.0 for Windows. You can think of it as a brand new product because a large number of APIs and data structures are redefined. If you have downloaded DBR v5.0 and tried to build Node.js barcode addon with it, you have to spend so ...

Raspberry Pi has been widely used in industrial environments. For instance, you can make a barcode scanner with Raspberry Pi and camera. This article will be useful for developers who want to create Node.js barcode reader applications for IoT devices. I will share how to use ...

Dynamsoft has deployed a REST web service for barcode detection. This post shares how to call the service by sending HTTP POST request using Golang.

When developing an Android project with Xamarin, I didn’t get any trouble. However, it is totally a different experience when building an iOS app with Xamarin – it is more complicated. In this article, I will share my experience of binding DynamsoftBarcodeReader.framework usi ...

Previously, I wrote an article Raspberry Pi Barcode Scanner with Webcam and Python illustrating how to build a simple barcode scanner using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK and OpenCV from scratch. The method decodeFile() was used for detecting barcodes from an image file. To use ...

Previously, I wrote an article Raspberry Pi Barcode Scanner with Webcam and Python illustrating how to build a simple barcode scanner using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK and OpenCV from scratch. The method decodeFile() was used for detecting barcodes from an image file. To use ...

C# is the preferred programming language for developing Windows applications. However, Microsoft only provides .NET camera APIs for UWP applications. If you plan to write a classic Windows desktop application using a webcam, it will be complicated to create a C/C++ wrapper fo ...

When building a .NET application to read barcodes on Windows via camera, you need two types of SDKs - one for webcam, and the other for barcodes. In this post, I want to share how to use .Net webcam and barcode SDKs to create a simple WinForm barcode reader application in C#.

Dynamsoft aims to make barcode SDK available for all mainstream platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android. There are many developers devoted to developing mobile barcode scanner app for iOS and Android platforms. To expedite the developing work, some of the ...

Previously, I shared two articles demonstrating how to build a Raspberry Pi barcode scanner in C/C++ with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK, and how to optimize the code with thread. The hardware I used only includes Raspberry Pi 2 and Webcam. Now it is time to have fun with GPIO ...

Dynamsoft has released the mobile barcode SDK for iOS. In this post, let’s see how to use the SDK to quickly build an iOS barcode scanner app.

No matter whether you are a web developer or an end-user, you probably have heard of the terms SaaS, Paas, and IaaS. They are three different models of cloud service. Why more and more people tend to embrace web and cloud services such as Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS? Because ...

When building mobile barcode scanning apps for Android or iOS, developers could either choose open source SDKs – ZXing and ZBar, or some commercial mobile barcode SDKs. If you are an Android developer and have installed Android Play Services SDK level 26 or greater, it is con ...

Although we have successfully ported Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK to Raspberry Pi, the performance is not as good as I expected. In my previous article, I demonstrated how to integrate the SDK into a barcode scanner application, in which the detection code works with webcam f ...

As Internet connection speed getting faster, more and more people tend to embrace cloud service. Any desktop applications could be transformed to cloud applications with better maintainability, security, and stability. End-users can use web browsers to get connected with soci ...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader C++ SDK is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac (iOS and Android editions are coming soon). I have shared an article that illustrates how to build webcam barcode reader in Python. In this tutorial, I’ll use a different C++ API to implement barcode sc ...

On mobile platforms, HTML5 is not only supported by web browsers, such as Safari, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, but also web view UI component that used for building native apps. The benefit is apparent that any developer who is familiar with web programming could easily create exc ...

Previously, I shared an article describing how to create an online barcode reader using Node.js, which turned Raspberry Pi into a web server. Today, I want to do another experiment – building a  Raspberry Pi barcode scanner with a USB webcam. For taking HD video and photo, yo ...

Previously, I shared an article describing how to create an online barcode reader using Node.js, which turned Raspberry Pi into a web server. Today, I want to do another experiment – building a  Raspberry Pi barcode scanner with a USB webcam. For taking HD video and photo, yo ...

Node.js is available for all platforms including IoT devices like Raspberry Pi. In this post, I will demonstrate how to quickly create an online barcode reader on Raspberry Pi using Node.js and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK.

When developing a web barcode reader app in PHP, you can either use some JavaScript barcode libraries to recognize barcode images on client-side or read the barcode images on server-side with some PHP extensions that capable of reading 1D and 2D barcode. In this post, I will ...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader provides C/C++ shared libraries for Windows, Linux, and Mac. The ultimate benefit is that any high-level programming languages, such as JavaScript, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP and so on, are capable of wrapping C/C++ APIs using an extension or an addon. N ...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader for Windows includes dynamic-link libraries for C/C++, DotNET and COM. If you want to use high-level programming languages such as Python, PHP, Java, Ruby and so on to create barcode reader apps with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader, you could either make a C ...

Previously, I shared an article How to Make Node Barcode Reader Addon on Linux, which illustrates how to create a node barcode addon by wrapping Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK on Linux. Since Node.js was born for developing network programs, let’s take a glimpse of how to creat ...

Probably you have read the article – Wrapping C/C++ Methods of Dynamsoft Barcode SDK for Python, which illustrates how to make Python extension on Windows. In this post, I’ll share how to make Python barcode extension on Ubuntu with Dynamsoft Barcode SDK for Linux.

If you want to make a Web barcode reader app using node.js, you may find a node barcode module with npm or build it yourself. Node addons are the bridge between C/C++ libraries and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I will illustrate how to create node barcode addon on Ubuntu with ...

A few days ago, Dynamsoft Labs released Barcode Reader SDK for Linux. The SDK package provides two shared libraries for C/C++ programming. If you want to write code with high-level programming languages such as Java, you need to create a wrapper. In this post, I will illustra ...

As cloud computing market continues to skyrocket, more and more IT companies tend to release cloud APIs for developers. Most cloud APIs are exposed via REST (Representational state transfer) Web service. In this post, I will illustrate how to create a barcode reader with Node ...

Recently, I noticed someone asked whether Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK can work for mobile devices. Because Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK does not support ARM yet, we can’t use it to develop native mobile apps. However, don’t be frustrated. Inspired by the article - Face detec ...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK written in C/C++ is capable of reading a variety of 1D and 2D barcode formats including Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, Codabar, QRCode, DataMatrix, PDF417 and so on. In this post, I’m going to demo how to use the SDK to make a simple Web barcode read ...

Dynamsoft Barcode SDK, which written in C/C++, supports both Windows and Mac OS X. Last week, I spent some time taking the Ruby online course on codecademy, thereby I decided to create a Ruby Barcode Reader by wrapping Dynamsoft C/C++ Barcode APIs.

Probably many Windows developers have upgraded operating systems to Windows 10. On Windows 10, Microsoft suggests developers create Universal Windows Apps (UWP) for a variety of devices, including PC, tablet, mobile phone, Hololens and so on. For development, I wonder whether ...

Have you implemented any barcode reader software in Swift on Mac OS X? Since Dynamsoft released the 1D/2D barcode SDK for Mac, I was wondering how I can bridge the C dylib with Swift. Why Swift, not Objective-C? Because Apple is encouraging developers to migrate to the new pr ...

ZXing is an open-source, 1D/2D barcode image processing library implemented in Java. The supported barcode formats include UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 93, Code 128, QR Code, Data Matrix, Aztec, PDF 417, etc. Besides the Java version, developers can leverage other ported project ...

Barcode is an efficient way to make information readable for machines. There are many scenarios of using Barcode reader software. For example, companies use Barcode encoding and decoding software to manage various documents that captured by office scanners. Airport security u ...

After writing articles talking about how to wrap Dynamsoft Barcode SDK to make Barcode extensions for Java, Python and JavaScript, I started to consider PHP. It is one of the most popular tags on StackOverflow. Most Web developers prefer using PHP for server-side development. ...

Do you know which programming language is currently ranking first on GitHub? It is JavaScript! JavaScript is not only used for HTML5 Web application development, but also for server-side programming with runtime environment Node.js. With npm, the package manager for Node.js, ...

Previously, I shared an article - Make Java Barcode Reader with Dynamsoft Barcode SDK - demonstrating how to implement a Java Barcode Reader with Dynamsoft Barcode SDK. In this tutorial, I’d like to share how to wrap C/C++ methods of Dynamsoft Barcode SDK to create a Barcode ...

Last week, Dynamsoft released Barcode Reader (DBR) SDK v2.0, which is available for Windows and Mac. The Windows installer contains Barcode libraries for ActiveX, C/C++, and .NET. If you are a Java developer, you have to use JNI to link native C/C++ libraries. In this tutoria ...

If you have upgraded to the latest HTML5 version of DWT(Dynamic Web TWAIN), probably you have noticed that it only supports 1D barcode reading. Although the 2D barcode SDK has not been officially released yet, it is coming soon. Today, I’d like to demo how to build a Web appl ...

Recently, I found an excellent jQuery plugin jquery.qrcode.js, which is written by Jerome Etienne. In this article, I would like to share how to use the QR code plugin to implement a free online app with Google App Engine. You can try my demo http://dynamsoft-test.appspot.com/.

We’re proud to reveal that Dynamsoft’s Dynamic .NET TWAIN 5.0 is on its way to release soon. In addition to WinForms support, the new version will include a WPF control. You can use it in your WPF app to capture images from TWAIN scanners and UVC/WIA webcams, to edit and save ...

Barcode scanning, especially QR code scans, are now widely used in various applications. This includes advertisements, newspapers, social networks, signage, and so on. The growth of QR codes is in large part due to the smartphone market’s booming growth. As a result, scanning ...