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MRZ stands for machine readable zone. A passport has a machine-readable zone which contains the information about name, nationality, passport number, date of birth, sex, and expiration date of passport. This article introduces how to use Dynamsoft OCR SDK to recognize MRZ and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LEGO Wedo 2.0 is a good start for learning robotics. I created a simple GUI app controlling the LEGO motor using Python. In this article, I will share my experience in how to select the development environment and how to build the Python app.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Dynamic Web TWAIN Linux Edition is a web-based document scanning SDK based on SANE. It consists of a native scanning service, which communicates with the scanner driver, and a JavaScript scanner library. With a few lines of JavaScript code, you can quickly build robust web sc ...

Dynamic Web TWAIN for Linux is coming soon. The underlying technology is SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). Although we do not need to write any code other than JavaScript when using Dynamic Web TWAIN to develop SANE document scanning applications on Linux, learning the underlyi ...

Dynamic Web TWAIN is a document scanning SDK that allows developers to build document management solutions in JavaScript. The beta version of Dynamic Web TWAIN for Linux is available for download. This post will illustrate how to build a simple web application to scan documen ...

Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK is a scanning SDK designed for web application development. It helps developers to easily build document scanning apps with a few lines of JavaScript code. The preview of Dynamic Web TWAIN for Linux is available now. In this post, I will demonstrate how ...

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 ...

During Build 2016, Microsoft released a Visual Studio C++ extension for Linux. With the extension, you can use Visual Studio to write C++ code for Linux devices. In this post, let’s take a glimpse of how to install the extension and how to remotely build and debug C/C++ code ...

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 ...

If you are a software developer, you probably have created a GitHub account to manage, share and learn code. To make your contribution public, GitHub is the right place for open source. However, the hosting service of private repositories on GitHub is not free. If you want to ...

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 ...