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
We have recently added the capability to restore default settings with a single click in the BardecodeFiler application and the SDK Demo. The reset button can be found under the ‘import/export’ tab in ‘options’ and restores default settings. It is worth noting that it does not reset the file paths for input and output directories.
Here’s some example code that you can use in an Excel VBA macro… Before you begin, make sure you have downloaded and installed the barcode reader sdk for windows, and run REGISTER.BAT as administrator in the bin folder. Set Barcode = CreateObject(“SoftekBarcodeCOM.Barcode”) ‘ Set the license key here Barcode.LicenseKey = “MY LICENSE KEY” Barcode.ScanDirection =
With scanned images it is not uncommon to have noisy documents which can produce false readings. However this can be dealt with using Softek’s software through the methods shown below. 1. Turn off barcode types you do not need to read. For example, say the c53e barcode is of type CODABAR and the barcodes
We often receive emails suggesting that the SDK is outputting incorrect characters at the start or end of a Codabar barcode. This is normally down to confusion over how codabar characters should be interpreted at the end of a barcode…. Codabar barcodes can start and end with with of 4 patterns: bars 0100, Spaces
Using the Softek Barcode Reader SDK to read barcodes from images in a VB.Net project is very straight foward and this article should get you up and running in under 15 minutes… Step 1. Download the barcode reader sdk from here If you are using a 64-bit system and want to handle PDF documents then please
Using the Softek Barcode Reader SDK with Delphi is pretty straight forward and we include a full example project with our download. This page aims to get you up and running in less than 15 minutes… Note that this example uses the win32 DLL interface to the SDK – if you would rather use the
Using the Softek Barcode Reader SDK with Delphi is pretty straight forward and we include a full example project with our download. This page aims to get you up and running in less than 15 minutes… Note that this example uses the COM interface to the SDK. If you would rather use the win32 DLL