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Dynamsoft Document Normalizer is a document scanning SDK that can be used to do edge detection, perspective correction, and contrast enhancement. Its C/C++ API is available on Windows and Linux. In this article, we will show you how to build a Python wrapper for Dynamsoft C/C++ Document Normalizer SDK, as...

Implementing a Python extension in C or C++ is easy, but building the native module into a Python wheel package for different operating systems and different Python versions is a nightmare. A CPython wheel package is Python-version-dependent, therefore, to make a CPython module work universally for Python 3.x, you have...

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....

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...

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 Dynamsoft Label Recognition(DLR)...

Dynamsoft Label Recognition (DLR) is an OCR SDK implemented in C/C++. The 1.0 Beta version was recently rolled out for Windows and Linux platforms. This article will demonstrate how to utilize the APIs of Dynamsoft Label Recognition to create a text recognition app on Windows. Requirements Dynamsoft Label Recognition 1.0...

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 results (E.g., grayscale image, binary image, barcode localization results,...

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...

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. Raspberry Pi 4 Specifications Broadcom BCM2711, Quad core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz...

Previously, I wrote an article showing how to build a DotCode reader in Java. I also updated my C# barcode demo to make it support DotCode decoding recently. In this article, I will share a new webcam scanner sample implemented in C++. Reading DotCode with Dynamsoft Barcode SDK Download Dynamsoft...

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 stable and optimized yet....

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader is an enterprise-class barcode SDK implemented in C/C++. Although the SDK is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS, there is only one Windows sample showing how to invoke the latest video APIs in version 7.x. To make developers experience the example in Linux or other platforms, I...

Three years ago, I created a Python extension module for Dynamsoft Barcode Reader C/C++ SDK. The code skeleton has never been changed until recently the SDK updated to v7.0. In the latest barcode SDK, besides the values of barcode symbologies, there are more constant variables needed to be predefined. The...

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 performance in a multi-threaded scenario. Running computation intensive tasks in Python thread...

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 the pointer to the native...

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 native code but...

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 JNI shared libraries with...

Last week, I shared how to create a CMake project for Windows. Since CMake is a cross-platform software building tool, I am going to make my C/C++ project support Linux and macOS. What You Should Know How to Make C/C++ Code Compatible with Multiple Platforms I used the predefined macros to...

If you have a program designed for multiple platforms, you definitely don’t want to waste time configuring and maintaining the building environment. I was thinking how to compile my C/C++ code for Windows, Linux and macOS more conveniently, and after that, I decided to learn CMake. CMake is an open-source,...

When porting code from Python 2 to Python 3, it is not as easy as you imagined no matter whether the primary programming language is Python or C/C++. Re-compiling the Dynamsoft Barcode extension for Python 3 is a challenge because I only found a few of documentation and resources online....

According to the statistics of Stack Overflow traffic, Python is the fastest-growing major programming language in high-income countries. Python seems to be promising in the future. I have noticed that many of the developers who would like to use Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK for Linux are more interested in Python...

It was my first time to hear about WebAssembly when watching Google I/O ‘17. WebAssembly (wasm) lets developers compile C/C++ or other statically typed languages into JavaScript for building high-performance web apps. Assume I have a C/C++ barcode detection or OCR library deployed on server-side,  I can now move it to the...

Dynamsoft C++ Barcode SDK supports ARM32 and ARM64. This article goes through the steps to create C/C++ barcode and QR code reader application on Raspberry Pi. To get better performance, it is recommended to use Raspberry Pi 4. The project build can work on both ARM32 and ARM64 Raspberry Pi...

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 barcode SDK for...

OpenCV officially provides both C++ and Python APIs for developers. Most of the time, developers just need to use one kind of programming languages to read, write and process images with hundreds of computer vision algorithms. However, if you want to use OpenCV Python APIs with an extended C/C++ library,...

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 (General-purpose...

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 scanner applications for Windows...

Building desktop applications is not as easy as developing web applications because it is platform-related. You may need to learn C# for Windows, C/C++ for Linux, and Swift for Mac. For Java developers, it is convenient to create universal desktop applications in Swing and JavaFX. What about web developers, who...

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 legacy C/C++ SDKs can also seamlessly work on Windows...

In this tutorial, let’s see how easy to find all contours in an image with OpenCV APIs. Overview Finding contours is a useful task during image processing. The relevant OpenCV functions are as follows: Find contours in a binary image. void findContours(InputOutputArray image, OutputArrayOfArrays contours, OutputArray hierarchy, int mode, int...

In this tutorial, let’s learn how to use Hough line transformation with OpenCV to make line detection in an Image. Hough Line Transform The Hough Line Transform is a transform used to detect straight lines. OpenCV implements three kinds of Hough Line Transforms:(Standard Hough Transform, SHT),（Multi-Scale Hough Transform, MSHT）and (Progressive...

Java Native Interface (JNI) is the glue between Java and native code such as C, C++, and assembly. With JNI, Java applications are capable of supporting platform-specific features. JNI enables developers to call low-level APIs (e.g. SQL, OpenGL etc.) to make Java application more powerful with higher performance. For example, we can...

In this tutorial, let’s continue to learn how to use OpenSSL to sign a certificate. Steps of Signing Certificate with OpenSSL We can use the command line to quickly generate ca certificate. openssl genrsa -out cakey.pem 2048 openssl req -new -days 365 -x509 -key cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -nodes -subj /C=CA/ST=BC/L=Vancouver/O=Dynamsoft/OU=Dynamsoft/CN=Dynamsoft/emailAddress=support@dynamsoft.com...

It is known that RSA is a cryptosystem which is used for the security of data transmission. This tutorial introduces how to use RSA to generate a pair of public and private keys on Windows. Download and install OpenSSL https://www.openssl.org/community/binaries.html. Find libeay32.lib, ssleay32.lib and libeay32.dll. The following sample code will...