Tag: qr code
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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 Dyna ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 barco ...
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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.
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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 st ...
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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 developer to quickly build robust command-line, web, and desktop applications that can scan barcodes and QR codes from a ...
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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 under ...
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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 exce ...
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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 wil ...
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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 ho ...
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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 ...
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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 Rea ...
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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, w ...
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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 ...
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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-cl ...
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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 plu ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The previous popular react-native-camera project is now deprecated in favor of react-native-vision-camera. VisionCamera offers new APIs, better performance, improved stability and more features. It has a feature called Frame processors, which makes it easy to integrate extra ...
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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 accele ...
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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 ...
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React Native is an open-source UI software framework made by Facebook. It enables developers to use the React framework to create applications for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, etc.
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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 existi ...
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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 demons ...
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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 implemen ...
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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, ...
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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-pl ...
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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 ...
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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 are that the ...
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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.
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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, multicas ...
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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. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial ↩ https://developer.mozilla.org/en ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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, w ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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 type ...
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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.
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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.
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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 develo ...
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Camera control and barcode reading are two essential parts of a barcode scanner.
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Xamarin is a cross-platform framework for building Android and iOS apps using .NET programming. The code structure of Xamarin Android and Xamarin iOS is different. For developers who want to construct UI for Android and iOS from a single codebase, Xamarin.Forms is the only so ...
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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 p ...
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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 Rasp ...
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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 ...
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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. Bes ...
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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 v ...
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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 project ...
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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/.
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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 ...