The ScanBarCodeFromBitmap function allows you to read bar codes from memory bitmaps rather than image files held on disk. The function takes a handle to a bitmap as the parameter rather than the path to a file containing the image. It is normally referred to as an HBITMAP by programmers. You can create a bitmap
If you try to install the Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit on a default installation of Ubuntu 12.10 then you may see the following message when you run ./configure.sh: Sorry – no build of bardecoder will work on this version of linux Please contact support@bardecode.com for further advice This is because Ubuntu 12.10 uses libtiff5 rather
We’ve updated the manual page that covers the configuration of DCOM on a 64-bit Windows 2012 Server. The key change is to run “MMC comexp.msc /32” on a 64-bit system rather than dcomcnfg.exe Anyhow, here is the new page… This section describes a problem that can be seen on ASP applications that handle PDF
We’ve now tested out the existing version of the Softek Mobile Barcode Reader Toolkit on IOS 7 Beta 5 and can confirm that it appears to work without the need for any updates to the library. Whilst checking out the compatibility of XCode 5 we also created an ARC (automatic reference counting) version of the
We’re pleased to announce a maintenance release of our barcode reading toolkit for Windows that rounds up a number of enhancements and fixes, mainly for 2-D barcodes. If you are using the SDK to decode QR-Codes, DataMatrix or PDF-417 then it is recommended that you upgrade to this version. Here’s the change list for version
We are pleased to announce the release of Version 7.5.1 of the Linux SDK. Existing customers with support and upgrade cover will be contacted in due course. This update brings the Linux SDK in line with the Windows variant with the introduction of support for the ubiquitous QR-Code and significant improvements to Datamatrix and PDF-417 recognition. The new
We are pleased to announce the minor release for the Windows SDK, V 7.5.1.22, which has various improvements. One of the biggest changes is the improved handling of skewed QR-Codes, which can now tolerate a far greater amount of skew. If you are an existing customer then you are welcome to upgrade for free, the
This article shows how to convert a string that has been double encoded using UTF-8. For example, say you have the string Müller instead of the string Müller. How did it happen? The letter ü is encoded in UTF-8 as 2 bytes: 195 and 188 If you encoded the bytes again then the 195 converts to
One change in version 7.5.1.18 of the sdk and version 1.8.1 of BardecodeFiler that has caused some backward compatibility issues is in the area of regular expressions. This version uses Microsoft RegEx matching and one important difference lies in the use of {} brackets. In previous versions of the sdk you could use the following
Developers working with our Barcode Reader SDK for IOS may have noticed that the video preview window no longer fills the entire screen in our example XCode project. The following screen shot shows the problem with out the bars at the top and bottom of the screen… To make the preview screen fill the entire