Tag: qr code
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A barcode is an optical, machine-readable, representation of data. There are different types of barcodes which are used in different contexts. EAN or UPC codes are printed on most items in stores. Code128 codes are used extensively in the shipping and packaging industries. QR codes have greater storage capacity and...
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Last week, we demonstrated how to create a Windows .NET MAUI app that can access the USB camera using Blazor web view. Although this solution provides a way to access the camera, for a Windows desktop application that requires optimal performance, it is recommended to prioritize native camera APIs over...
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.NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) is a cross-platform UI framework for building native and modern applications in C#. It allows developers to create a single codebase for multiple platforms. Blazor is a web UI framework for building interactive client-side web applications with .NET. It allows developers to write C# code...
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Notion is an all-in-one workspace for us to use the computer. It is basically a note-taking app but it is more than that with great customizability. In this article, we are going to build a web app to scan ISBN barcodes to get the info of books and save them...
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In my previous article, I demonstrated how to package C++ libraries into a NuGet package. This week, I’ll be expanding the package to include Android and iOS binding libraries, enabling multi-platform development across Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS. The advantage of an all-in-one NuGet package is that you can...
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A NuGet package is a single ZIP file that can be easily distributed and installed in Visual Studio projects. It typically includes compiled code (such as DLLs), as well as other resources, metadata, and configuration files. While NuGet packages are commonly used for .NET projects, they can also be used...
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Barcode scanning is an essential tool for modern inventory management. It improves accuracy, efficiency, real-time tracking, and cost savings, making it an important part of any effective inventory management system. In this article, we will demonstrate how to build a multiple barcode, QR code and DataMatrix scanner with Flutter for...
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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. You can check out the video to see what it does. Build an Oracle APEX Application to...
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Next.js is a flexible React framework that gives you building blocks to create fast web applications. It can pre-render your React app so that it is SEO-friendly. It supports several types of pre-rendering including server-side rendering or static generation, and updating or creating content at runtime with incremental static regeneration....
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The official Flutter camera plugin is a useful tool for building camera scanning applications on Android, iOS, and web platforms. However, those who want to use it for Windows may be disappointed. Fortunately, there is a camera_windows plugin currently under development, located in the same repository as the Android, iOS,...
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Near-field communication (NFC) is a set of communication protocols that enables communication between two electronic devices over a distance of 4 cm (11⁄2 in) or less.1 We can store the data in an NFC tag in the NDEF format and then put a phone with NFC support to read its...
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These are just a few Python barcode SDKs that support ARM32 and ARM64 architectures. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader is the only commercial 1D and 2D barcode SDK that provides barcode recognition capabilities for ARM32 and ARM64 devices. This article demonstrates how to create ARM32 and ARM64 emulated environments on Windows to...
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In the previous article, we talked about how to scan documents in a FileMaker custom app using Dynamic Web TWAIN. In this article, we are going to add a barcode scanning function in a FileMaker custom app using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. We embed an MQTT receiver web app in the...
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In places like laboratories, we often need to scan a tray of multiple tubes with barcodes on the top (like the following image). The tubes may be used for Covid-19 PCR test. They need to be retrieved in reading order (from left to right and line by line from the...
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Barcode scanning technology is crucial for many enterprises, such as those in the supermarket, logistics, and warehousing industries. The data obtained from scanning barcodes is used to track inventory, manage orders, and process payments. Handheld barcode scanners are widely used as peripheral devices in these industries. However, traditional handheld laser...
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In scenarios like inventory management and checkout, we often need to get the barcodes into a PC device. We can use a handheld laser barcode scanner to scan the barcodes and send the results to a PC device via USB, Bluetooth or network. But as smartphones are ubiquitous now, we...
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Flutter enables developers to create applications for desktop, mobile, and web from a single codebase. However, not all plugins are universally compatible with every platform. In this article, you will learn how to choose appropriate plugins to build a web-based barcode, QR code, and PDF417 scanner in Flutter. Although the...
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Solidjs is a web framework like React. Instead of using techniques like virtual DOM, it compiles its templates to real DOM nodes and updates them with fine-grained reactions. In this article, we are going to build a barcode and QR code scanner using Solidjs. Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer is used to...
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Barcode reading is a complex task with different challenging scenarios. To suit most scenarios, Dynamsoft Barcode Reader provides rich image processing parameters which users can adjust. There are two ways to adjust the parameters. One is via the code: // JavaScript example to set the barcode format to QR code...
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In the previous article, we’ve built a NativeScript plugin for camera preview. In this article, we are going to create a NativeScript plugin for Dynamsoft Barcode Reader which can be used for scanning barcodes or QR codes. This article is Part 2 in a 2-Part Series. Part 1 - How...
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Node-RED is a flow-based programming tool built-on Node.js. It provides a browser-based editor that helps users create awesome applications by wiring different nodes. This article shares how to build a barcode QR reading node with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. Node-RED Installation Install and run Node-RED. Windows npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red...
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In the previous article, we demonstrated how to build a React Native QR code scanner using Vision Camera and the Dynamsoft Barcode Reader frame processor plugin. In this article, we are going to talk about how to build a barcode scanner using Expo. Expo is an open-source platform for making...
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Raspberry Pi is a cheap single-board computer, which is often adopted by developers as an economical IoT solution, such as scanning barcode and Qr code. One thing you have to know is the CPU clock speed affects the decoding speed and accuracy. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK supports Raspberry Pi. Its...
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Svelte is a web framework like React or Vue. Instead of using techniques like virtual DOM diffing, Svelte writes code that surgically updates the DOM when the state of your app changes. In this article, we are going to build a barcode and QR code scanner using Svelte. Dynamsoft Camera...
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This article aims to help Go developers to build barcode QR code reader applications with Dynamsoft C++ Barcode SDK on Windows and Linux. You will see how to interoperate Golang with C++ code using cgo, as well as how to deploy the application to Docker. Prerequisites Go 1.19.1 To build...
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Quasar is a Vue.js-based framework, which allows web developers to quickly create responsive websites/apps, while Capacitor is a runtime for creating cross-platform iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. In this article, we are going to use the two to create a QR code scanner using...
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Previously, we created a Xamarin.Forms Barcode QR code scanner for Android and iOS. Xamarin.Forms is not the end for developing cross-platform mobile apps in C#, because .NET MAUI is on the way. Microsoft mentions that .NET MAUI is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, and it supports both mobile and desktop development....
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If you try to port Xamarin mobile projects to .NET MAUI, you will find there is no problem with packages built for Xamarin Android, but packages built for Xamarin iOS are incompatible. To tackle this issue, you need to change target framework to .NET 6 and rebuild related packages. Dynamsoft...
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If you want to use PHP Laravel framework to build a web barcode and QR code reader, you can implement the code logic either on the client side or on the server side. Dynamsoft provides a variety of SDKs for different platforms: desktop, mobile and web. In this article, we...
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When using PHP, you may need to integrate a few C++ libraries sometimes. This article guides you through the process of building a PHP Barcode QR code reading extension with Dynamsoft C++ Barcode SDK on Windows and Linux. Download PHP on Windows php-sdk-binary-tools Contains some build-required binaries for Windows, such...
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In tasks like barcode scanning and text recognition, we often need to limit the scan region so that only the desired info is extracted. In this article, we are going to build a viewfinder web component as the following which shows which area will be processed. Stencil.js is used to...
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In the previous article, we’ve built a React camera component. In this article, we are going to extend the camera component to create a React barcode and QR code scanning library using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. Getting started with Dynamsoft Barcode Reader DOWNLOAD THE SDK WITH A 30-DAY LICENSE REQUEST A...
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Using the getUserMedia API, we can get the camera preview in a video element, which makes it possible to do computer vision tasks like barcode scanning in a browser. In this article, we are going to write a camera component for Vue using getUserMedia and build a barcode scanning demo...
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Xamarin.Forms lets .NET developers create cross-platform mobile apps for Android and iOS in C#. This article demonstrates how to scan barcode and QR code from image file and live video stream using Xamarin.Forms Custom Renderers and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK. In the end of this article, we will also demonstrate...
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Web Components are a set of features that provide a standard component model for the Web allowing for encapsulation and interoperability of individual HTML elements. 1 We can define a custom element to use in any HTML environment, with any framework, or with no framework at all. Stencil is a...
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Progressive web apps (PWA), simply to say, are web apps that running like native apps on the desktop and mobile platforms. The advantages of PWA include installable, discoverable, linkable and so on. In this article, I’m trying to give a snapshot of a simple PWA barcode reader project built with...
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Previously, we created an Angular Barcode and QR Code Scanner. To make it reusable for other Angular applications, we can turn it into an Angular library. This article will show you the process of creating an Angular barcode QR code scanning library, as well as how to integrate it into...
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In the previous article, we’ve given a brief demonstration on how to use the capacitor-plugin-dynamsoft-barcode-reader to create a cross-platform QR code scanner using Ionic React. In this article, we are going to use Ionic Vue to create such a QR code scanner. Screenshots of the final results: Home Scanning Home...
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If you want to build and test barcode QR code scanner applications for embedded and IoT devices, such as Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Jetson Nano and so on, a physical device is not must-have for development. This article shows how to use Dynamsoft Barcode SDK to build barcode QR code reading...
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Noise in barcode images poses a challenge for successful barcode reading. There are many types of noise. Here are some examples: Patterned noise caused by bad printing or scanning.1 Image source Noise caused by taking a photo with digital cameras in low light.2 We can run image processing to improve...
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The Ionic framework has shifted its native runtime from Cordova to Capacitor. But we can still create Ionic Angular projects based on Cordova. In this article, we are going to create an Ionic Angular QR code scanning app based on Cordova using the cordova-plugin-dynamsoft-barcode-reader and the ionic wrapper. Preview of...
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Dynamsoft JavaScript barcode SDK is compatible with all mainstream web frameworks and web browsers. This article goes through the steps to build Angular barcode and QR code scanner apps with Dynamsoft JavaScript barcode SDK. This article is Part 1 in a 2-Part Series. Part 1 - How to Build Angular...
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iOS has added support for getUserMedia in WKWebView since iOS 14.3 and WebAssembly since iOS 11. So it is possible to use the JavaScript version of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader to scan barcodes and QR codes in WKWebView. In this article, we are going to build a demo app to illustrate...
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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...
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Google Chrome has getUserMedia support since v53 and WebAssembly support since v57, which makes it possible to use Dynamsoft Barcode Reader to scan barcodes and QR codes in the web context. The WebView component included in modern Android uses Chrome as its backend, so we can also run a barcode...
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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...
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In many barcode scanning situations, we only need to select one barcode while there are many other barcodes around it. How to avoid scanning unwanted barcodes and only get the barcode result we want? In this article, we are going to talk about ways to select one barcode from many....
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In the previous article, we’ve talked about how to use the Barcode Detection API to create a web QR code scanner. However, not many browsers support the API. So in this article, we are going to write a polyfill for the Barcode Detection API with the JavaScript version of Dynamsoft...
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The Web Platform Incubator Community Group has published a Shape Detection API specification. The API aims at detecting features like faces and QR codes from images. It is still in draft status and has limited browser support. In this article, we are going to use the Barcode Detection API included...
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A few weeks ago, I released a .NET 6 BarcodeQRCodeSDK package implemented with Dynamsoft C/C++ Barcode SDK. This article demonstrates how to build a Windows desktop barcode and QR code scanner using .NET WinForms, OpenCvSharp, and BarcodeQRCodeSDK. This article is Part 4 in a 4-Part Series. Part 1 - How...
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.NET MAUI is a cross-platform framework that allows developers to create desktop and mobile applications from a single codebase with C#. It is currently in preview and the production release is slated for Q2 2022. This article goes through the steps to build a .NET MAUI barcode and QR code...
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The Ionic framework has shifted its native runtime from Cordova to Capacitor. But for compatibility concerns and the fact that there are many good Cordova plugins, we can still use Cordova plugins in an Ionic project. We can directly use Cordova plugins with the cordova object, but there is a...
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Normally, we scan barcodes and QR codes from live camera streams or static images. But sometimes, we may need to read barcodes from video files, like scanning the barcodes on a long shelf and evaluating the performance of live scanning. A video contains rich information. A state-of-art mobile phone can...
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Dynamsoft is the only company that provides enterprise-class Python Barcode and QR Code SDK for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Raspberry Pi OS. The SDK allows developers to quickly build robust command-line, web, and desktop applications that can scan barcodes and QR codes from a wide range of sources. In this...
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If you are looking for a JavaScript barcode and QR code scanner SDK, Dynamsoft JavaScript Barcode SDK is no doubt the best. The SDK enables developers to quickly build web barcode and QR code scanner applications with a few lines of code. This article gives you a better understanding of...
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On mobile platforms, HTML5 is not only supported by web browsers, such as Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, and Opera, but also web view UI component that used for building native apps. Therefore, even though you are only familiar with web development, you can easily create excellent mobile apps for Android...
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Microsoft is pushing .NET technologies to the next level. It is no doubt that .NET framework will be retired in the near future. This article aims to help C# developers to create Windows desktop barcode and QR code reader application using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK. We will firstly create a...
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Microsoft .NET 6 SDK empowers C# developers to build cross-platform DotNet applications for Windows, Linux, and macOS from one codebase. This article describes the steps to build a .NET 6 barcode and QR code decoding library based on Dynamsoft C/C++ Barcode SDK, as well as how to pack the library...
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There are many open source JavaScript barcode and QR code reader libraries, but few of them are suitable for enterprise use. The reason is that they do not have a road map for long-term algorithm updates and maintenance. In addition, the performance of pure JavaScript is not good enough. WebAssembly...
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In the previous article, we’ve given a brief demonstration on how to use the capacitor-plugin-dynamsoft-barcode-reader to create a cross-platform QR code scanner using web technologies with Capacitor. In this article, we are going to take a step further to create an Ionic React QR Code Scanner. A preview of the...
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In previous article, we discussed how to construct a command-line barcode and QR code scanning application using Java and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. In this article, we will create more fancy applications, such as a desktop GUI application and a web application. In addition, we will import ZXing SDK to make...
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There are many open-source and commercial barcode SDKs, but only a few of them can recognize multiple barcode and QR code simultaneously. When you search Google for barcode SDK or Java barcode SDK, Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK always appears in the top 5 of the search results. This article guides...
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Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK supports development of barcode and QR code scanning applications for desktop, mobile and web platforms. The version 9.0 of the SDK is coming to all platforms in the following weeks. The C++ SDK is available for download today. As an enterprise-class C++ barcode and QR code...
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Previously, I wrote a blog post sharing how to implement a Flutter QR code scanner plugin for Android. For cross-platform mobile development, a plugin is not perfect if it does not support both Android and iOS. In this article, I am going to complement the iOS part of the plugin...
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SwiftUI is a powerful UI framework for building native apps for any Apple platform. This article guides you through the process of creating an iOS QR code scanner using SwiftUI, Dynamsoft Camera Enhancer and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader on M1 Mac mini. Dev Environment on M1 Mac mini Xcode 13.2.1 Cocoapods...
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In the previous series articles, we’ve created a react-native-vision-camera frame processor plugin of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader to scan barcodes. In this article, we are going to build a QR Code scanner using this plugin to better illustrate how to use it. A preview of the final result: The app consists...
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Barcode and QR codes are widely used in many industries, such as healthcare, finance, and education. This article shares how to leverage Dynamsoft barcode recognition technologies to implement an online barcode and QR code scanning app with Python Django. This article is Part 2 in a 3-Part Series. Part 1...
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In the previous article, we’ve created a React Native Vision Camera frame processor plugin for Dynamsoft Barcode Reader (DBR). Let’s continue to create the frame processor plugin for iOS. This article is Part 2 in a 3-Part Series. Part 1 - Build a React Native Vision Camera Frame Processor Plugin...
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The previous popular react-native-camera project is now deprecated in favor of react-native-vision-camera. Vision Camera offers new APIs, better performance, improved stability and more features. It has a feature called Frame processors, which makes it easy to integrate extra image processing abilities. We are going to create a frame processor plugin...
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A week ago, I made an experiment to test the QR code detection performance with YOLOv4 on Android. The inference time of running the YOLOv4 model on CPU is more than 100ms, which does not reach my expectation. Since Android Neural Networks API (NNAPI) provides hardware acceleration for TensorFlow Lite...
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In my previous article, I demonstrated how to implement a simple Android QR code scanner. Based on the codebase, I am going to do something more interesting - integrate the YOLOv4 tiny model that I trained for QR code detection into the Android project. Is YOLO tiny competent for real-time...
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Note: This article talks about how to build a QR code scanner native UI component for React Native. If you need to use Dynamsoft Barcode Reader in a React Native project for production, please use the official Dynamsoft Capture Vision SDK. React Native is an open-source UI software framework made...
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A QR code scanner application primarily consists of two parts: camera preview and QR code scanning. There are many Android QR code scanner apps downloadable in the Google Play Store. However, it is more interesting to create a QR code scanner by yourself than to use an existing one. This...
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Jupyter notebook is a web-based interactive computing environment that enables you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. If you have installed Anaconda, Jupyter notebook is installed by default. This article demonstrates how to write Python code to scan barcodes in Jupyter notebook....
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As an Android developer, if you want to pursue better application performance - reducing memory copy and garbage collection, you can migrate some of your code from Java/Kotlin to C++. In this article, I take the QR scanner as an example. I will use NDK camera2 API to implement the...
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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, or the tradeoff between speed and accuracy, there is always an appropriate one. Since the parameters...
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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-platform benefits, but with a more...
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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 QR code scanner...
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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...
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In this article, I will walk you through how to implement a lightweight Flutter QR code scanner plugin. The plugin supports scanning QR Codes from live video streams of Android phones. You can find the package on pub.dev. Supported symbologies include QR Codes, linear codes, PDF417, and more. This article...
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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, multicast, WebSocket and more), making inter-process messaging as simple as inter-thread messaging. 1 ZeroMQ can be used...
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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. Using SVG, it is very easy to draw a graphics in a web page. Below is a polygon example: <svg width="100" height="100" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">...
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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, it...
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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 code from WebP images. Installation...
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Image annotation is a key step in deep learning. It prepares the data for tasks like image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, etc. For image classification, we only need to annotate the label. For object detection, we also need the bounding box and for segmentation, we need to annotate objects...
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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. Reading QR codes in the real world is a challenging job. For example, the...
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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, which compares...
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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 API surface works across most Android and iOS devices. While it leverages the capabilities of Android’s Camera2 and iOS’s AVCaptureSession, it is much easier to...
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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. This article is Part 5 in a 5-Part Series. Part 1 - How to Implement Flutter Barcode Scanner for Android...
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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 B4J to...
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This article is Part 2 in a 3-Part Series. Part 1 - Cross-Platform Barcode Reader with B4X Part 2 - B4X Live Barcode Scanner | Scan QR Codes From Camera Stream Part 3 - Web Barcode Reader using B4X In the previous article, we created a Dynamsoft Barcode Reader library...
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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 types of Flutter defined...
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B4X is a set of rapid development tools which can be used to develop apps for all the major mobile and desktop platforms. It has four products: B4A, B4i, B4J and B4R, which aim at Android, iOS, Java (desktop with JavaFX, server and Raspberry Pi) and Arduino development. Apart from...
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Let’s continue discussing scanning QR codes at a distance. In this article, we’ll talk about resolution. Using the camera’s highest resolution Most of the current smartphones’ video stream resolution can be set to 1080P (Full HD) and many of them support 4K (Ultra HD) video capturing. The higher the resolution...
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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. This article is Part 3 in a 5-Part...
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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 developers to build apps for...
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Camera control and barcode reading are two essential parts of a barcode scanner. Dynamsoft Barcode Reader is an advanced barcode reader with an easy-to-use Android library. The implementation of the barcode reading function is simple and straightforward. Making a good camera app, however, is not easy. In Android, there are...
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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 printed on posters, package boxes, etc....
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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 GUI Python barcode and QR code reader with Dynamsoft Python Barcode SDK for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Raspberry Pi OS. The...
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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...
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In the past two weeks, I trained a custom YOLOv3 model for QR code detection and tested it with Darknet. In this article, I will use OpenCV’s DNN (Deep Neural Network) module to load the YOLO model for making detection from static images and real-time camera video stream. Besides, I...
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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 v3...
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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...
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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 projects such as QZXing, zxing-cpp, zxing_cpp.rb, python-zxing and ZXing...
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This article aims to share how to use the QR code plugin to implement a free online app with Google App Engine. How to Implement QR Code Generator Download jQuery QRCode plugin. Download JavaScript UTF-8. Create a project named qrcode, and create a file called qrcode.html. Include plugins: <script src="js/jquery.min.js"></script>...
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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 technology tends to be more and more useful...