Copyright 2002-2004 Softek Software Limited
http:://www.softeksoftware.co.uk

RECOGNITION
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Softek Barcode Reader Tooklit for Linux reads barcodes from image file.

Supported barcodes: CODE-39, CODE-25, CODABAR, CODE-128, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8 
and EAN-13

Support image formats: Jpeg and Tif

Please note that color Tif files should be uncompressed.


The TGZ file includes the trial version of the bardecode.a archive and the
source code for the bardecode command.

The bardecode command is simple to use:

e.g. ./bardecode_trial image.tif -t "code39|code128|ean13"
     ./bardecode_trial image.jpg -t "code39|code128|ean13"
     ./bardecode_trial image.jpg -t any

You must specify the types of barcode to read with the -t flag.

For details of options run:

./bardecode_trial -?


For details of the 'C' programmers API please refer to the file C_API.




CREATION
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The command code39drawtrial creates JPG files containing bar code strings.

Example:

./code39drawtrial -f file.jpg -b "My Bar Code String" -w 300 -h 100

...creates a JPEG file 300 by 100 pixels with the code 39 image for "My Bar
Code String".
