When you need to decode barcodes and QR codes in a PHP Laravel application, you cannot call a C++ SDK directly from PHP without extra work. This tutorial shows how to bridge PHP and the Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK through a standalone Python service, avoiding compiled PHP extensions and keeping...

Low-resolution barcode images, low-light warehouse photos, and glare from glossy labels are common causes of barcode scanning failures. The practical question is not only “which barcode reader is most accurate?”, but also “when should I tune the DBR template, and when is the image too degraded to recover?” This tutorial...

Answer sheets, notebooks, and worksheet pages often carry two identifiers at once: a QR code for machine lookup and a printed page number for human ordering. This Python desktop app reads both from the same fixed-layout page image by combining barcode decoding and OCR inside Dynamsoft Capture Vision, then shows...

This index provides a centralized view of Codepool’s benchmark and evaluation content across diverse symbologies, platforms, and real-world scanning scenarios. What you’ll build: A short list of the most relevant Codepool benchmark pages to review before choosing a barcode or MRZ stack for your project. Key Takeaways If you need...

Reading barcodes and QR codes on the server side is a common requirement for document processing, inventory systems, and logistics applications. With the Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK and ASP.NET MVC 5 on .NET Framework 4.8, you can add accurate, multi-format barcode decoding to a web application in a few focused...

Modern web applications increasingly need to capture and process identity documents, QR codes, and barcodes directly in the browser. The Dynamsoft Capture Vision (DCV) SDK provides vision pipelines for barcode reading, MRZ (Machine-readable Zone) recognition, and document boundary detection—all running client-side in WebAssembly. This tutorial shows you how to build...

Web-based vision SDKs are an excellent fit for Electron: they run entirely in a Chromium renderer process, require no native add-ons, and can be distributed as a self-contained desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The Dynamsoft Capture Vision (DCV) SDK uses WebAssembly under the hood, which makes it a...

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...

When building Android applications that require barcode scanning capabilities, developers have several SDK options to consider. Two commonly used solutions are Google ML Kit Barcode Scanning and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. ML Kit is a free, general-purpose machine learning SDK from Google, while Dynamsoft Barcode Reader is a commercial SDK specialized...

Augmented reality (AR) enhances our physical environment by overlaying digital information in real time. This technology transforms traditional barcode scanning from a simple data capture task into an intuitive spatial experience. Imagine walking through a warehouse where AR markers precisely identify each item’s location, or managing hospital supplies with visual...

Barcode and QR code scanning is essential for many workflows—from inventory management and product research to accessing promotional content and document processing. While mobile apps dominate this space, a browser extension offers unique advantages: it’s always available during web browsing without app switching, can extract barcodes directly from web pages...

A barcode or QR Code generator can be incredibly useful for quickly sharing links, managing inventory, or encoding information. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through building a Chrome extension that generates both 1D and 2D barcodes from the current webpage URL or user-inputted text. What you’ll build: A Manifest...

When evaluating barcode scanning SDKs, you’ll often encounter bold marketing claims: “Scans barcodes from 5 meters away!” or “Industry-leading long-distance scanning!” But here’s the truth that vendors don’t want you to know: distance alone is a meaningless metric. In this article, I’ll show you how to build an iOS app...

Building a barcode scanner app is one thing, but creating an intuitive user experience with real-time visual feedback is what sets great apps apart from the rest. In this comprehensive tutorial, you’ll learn how to enhance the basic Dynamsoft React Native barcode scanner sample by adding dynamic visual overlays that...

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...

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...

Dynamsoft’s ready-to-use iOS barcode scanner framework adds live QR code and barcode scanning to a SwiftUI app through Swift Package Manager, and its open-source component can be customized to override default behavior such as automatic result return. This article is Part 1 in a 1-Part Series. Part 1 - How...

Dynamsoft provides two NuGet packages for .NET MAUI development: Dynamsoft.BarcodeReaderBundle.Maui targets Android and iOS, while Dynamsoft.DotNet.BarcodeReader.Bundle is built for Windows. Use the Windows package with Windows.Media.Capture.MediaCapture to capture live USB camera frames in a .NET MAUI Windows application and decode 1D/2D barcodes in real time with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. What...

Salesforce Lightning Web Components cannot run Dynamsoft Barcode Reader’s WebAssembly module directly, so this tutorial embeds a barcode scanning page in an iframe and uses postMessage to return scan results to the LWC. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader handles the actual barcode decoding inside the iframe, while the Lightning component manages the...

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. Build a Nuxt.js 3 barcode and QR code scanner that opens a webcam stream and reads 1D/2D barcodes in real time using Dynamsoft Camera...

Barcode Scanning has become an essential tool across various industries, from retail and logistics to healthcare. On desktop platforms, it enables the quick capture and processing of information without manual data entry, saving time and reducing errors. In this tutorial, we will continue exploring the capabilities of the Dynamsoft Capture...

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,...

Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK consists of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader, Dynamsoft Label Recognizer, Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer, Dynamsoft Document Normalizer, and Dynamsoft Code Parser. Build Angular barcode and QR code scanner apps from scratch using the Dynamsoft Capture Vision JavaScript SDK to decode 1D/2D barcodes from image files and live camera streams...

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. You can slim down OpenCV to retain only the essential camera modules...

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...

Barcode scanning is an essential tool for modern inventory management. It improves accuracy, efficiency, real-time tracking, and cost savings, making it a critical component of any effective inventory management system. In this article, we will build a Flutter barcode scanner capable of simultaneously reading multiple 1D barcodes, QR codes, and...

SwiftUI is a robust UI framework designed for constructing native applications across all Apple platforms. This article will guide you through developing an iOS QR code scanner utilizing SwiftUI, Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader on an Apple Silicon Mac (M1/M2/M3/M4). What you’ll build: A native iOS app that...

In the previous article, we covered QR code modes and how to generate QR codes in Python. This article builds an online QR code generator that runs the Python segno library in the browser through Pyodide, so users can create QR codes with byte mode, structured append, custom error correction,...

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...

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...

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....

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. What you’ll build: An Oracle APEX barcode-scanning page that opens the camera, reads barcodes in the browser...

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...

HTML5 is universally supported across all modern browsers — Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, and Opera — on both desktop and mobile, as well as WebView components used in native Android and iOS apps. This cross-platform reach means a single ASP.NET web application can serve all users without maintaining separate native...

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...

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...

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...

QR codes1 are everywhere - URLs, payment flows, ticketing, inventory labels, patient wristbands. Building a browser-based QR code scanner means users get instant scanning capability on any device without downloading an app. This guide shows how to build one using the Dynamsoft Barcode Reader JavaScript SDK v11, which runs entirely...

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,...