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Using a Code 128 font

admin December 16, 2019 Barcode Specification, Knowledge Base, News, Software Development Kits

A barcode font is a quick and easy way to create a barcode and a lot cheaper than buying software to create the barcode, so what could be wrong in using a Code128 font? A Code 128 barcode breaks down as follows: Start character Data characters Checksum character Stop character The start and stop characters

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BardecodeFiler 2.6.2.1 released

admin December 13, 2019 BardecodeFiler, Blog, Knowledge Base, News

We’ve made some changes to BardecodeFiler to improve speed when handling very large batches: 2 new options have been added under Options/Log Files/Enable Disable: Hide file details in tree until end of batch – do not display details for each file processed in a batch until the batch has completed. Clear tree data at start

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Digitising the Natural History Museum collection with some help from BardecodeFiler

admin November 4, 2019 BardecodeFiler, News

The Natural History Museum in London is currently digitizing its collection, including insect slides with barcodes. BardecodeFiler is used to read the barcode from a photo of the slide and rename the photo to the code for the specimen. Here’s a link to video that explains the whole process: https://www.wired.co.uk/video/how-the-natural-history-museum-is-scanning-80-million-dead-creatures Here’s another link to an

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BardecodeFiler Version 2.6.1 released

admin August 21, 2019 BardecodeFiler, Blog, Knowledge Base, News

We’re pleased to announce the release of BardecodeFiler version 2.6.1.1. The main highlight of this release is the new way of presenting information in the main output window. Gone is the free format text output, replaced by a tree structure that allows the user to explore the results from a batch and review previous batches

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Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows Version 8.3.3.5 Released

admin August 20, 2019 Knowledge Base, News, Software Development Kits

We’re pleased to announce that version 8.3.3.5 of the Windows barcode reader SDK has been released. This version has significant speed improvements to datamatrix recognition and enhanced support for datamatrix barcodes printed in a dotted pattern. Here’s the full list of changes: Fix for random barcode coordinates when MultipleRead is not enabled. Fix for false

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How to fool ANPR systems

admin August 14, 2019 Blog, News

Here’s an interesting article on how it’s possible to fool technology designed to keep an eye on us all. In this case it’s number plate recognition but similar problems can occur with barcode recognition – random artefacts in an image can resemble the patterns created by barcodes. Fortunately it’s easier to distinguish the false positive

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Basic regex pattern matching

admin July 22, 2019 BardecodeFiler, Knowledge Base, Software Development Kits

The Softek Barcode Reader SDK and our BardecodeFiler Windows application both use ‘regex’ pattern matching for matching barcode values. We often get asked advice on how to build a regex so we thought a short guide to the basics might be useful.   Here is a simple example: ^\d{5}$ So let’s break it down: ^

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A test script for Linux

admin June 25, 2019 Knowledge Base, Software Development Kits

The following script can be used for barcode testing on Linux in a similar way to the test option in SoftekSDKDemo (using the same options): echo “Test only with supplied options” r=`./bardecode $*` if test -n “$r” then echo “Found barcode: $r” exit fi echo “Test: Small quiet zones around barcodes (-q 10)” r=`./bardecode -q

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QR Codes and Chinese characters

admin June 4, 2019 Barcode Specification, Knowledge Base

QR Codes are versatile containers for all sorts of data and have Kanji character encoding built into the specification, but what about simplified or traditional Chinese? This article attempts to explain the different ways it can be done and why the interpretation of a QR Code can be application specific… One solution is just to

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Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows Version 8.3.3.3 has been released

admin June 4, 2019 Blog, Knowledge Base, News, Software Development Kits

Version 8.3.3.3 of our barcode reader SDK for Windows has been released. This should be of particular interest to developers using Chinese characters in QR Codes and anyone reading PDF417 barcodes. 1. Performance improvement for images with certain types of repeated pattern. 2. Fix for recognition of Kanji characters using the Kanji byte compaction scheme

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