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Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK allows developers to customize algorithm parameters against different barcode scanning scenarios. There are some pre-configured parameter templates for decoding performance. No matter you pursue ultimate decoding speed, ultimate decoding accuracy, ...

Capacitor is an open source native runtime created by the Ionic team for building Web Native apps. We can use it to create cross-platform iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.1 As an alternative to Cordova, Capacitor delivers the same cross-pl ...

Apache Cordova is a tool to create cross-platform apps from standard web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). Its primary purpose is to provide a bridge for native device API access and to bundle for distribution.1 In this article, we are going to use Cordova to build a ...

If you want to create a QR code scanner for both Windows and Android from a single codebase, what is the best way to do it? If you have read my previous article, Flutter could be your answer. However, it takes time to develop Flutter plugins. The cons of Flutter are that the ...

If you want to create a Flutter camera application, a quick way is to install the official Camera plugin. However, the plugin is still under development, and there are no vision APIs available yet. This article will show you how to implement a custom Flutter camera view widge ...

ZeroMQ is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library, aimed at use in distributed or concurrent applications. It supports common messaging patterns (pub/sub, request/reply, client/server and others) over a variety of transports (TCP, in-process, inter-process, multicas ...

Industries, such as healthcare, finance, and education, have to deal with amounts of paper per day. An excellent electronic document management system can bring high-efficiency to companies. In modern document management system, barcode and QR code are playing a key role. In ...

Scalable Vector Graphics, SVG, is a W3C XML dialect to mark up graphics1. SVG can be created dynamically with JavaScript and injected into the HTML DOM2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial ↩ https://developer.mozilla.org/en ...

QR code is useful to transfer data across different devices. An Android device can exchange data with an iOS device through a QR code. It does not require setting up a wireless network and does not have the hassle of pairing using Bluetooth. As it is a screen-camera solution, ...

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader currently does not support WebP images. If you download a QR code image encoded with WebP format, how can you recognize the QR code with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader? In this article, we combine libwebp and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader to fulfill decoding QR ...

Image annotation is a key step in deep learning. It prepares the data for tasks like image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, etc.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In my previous article, I shared how to integrate Dynamsoft Barcode Reader to LabelImg for annotating barcode objects. It is time to take a further step to make some custom models for barcodes. In this article, I will go through the process that I used Darknet to train YOLO v ...

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 ...

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/.

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 ...