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Version 9.1.4 of the Barcode Reader SDK Released

admin February 7, 2022 Documentation, Knowledge Base, News, Software Development Kits

Version 9.1.4 of the barcode reader SDK has been released. This applies to both the Windows version and the Linux/OSX/iOS/Android version. Most of the changes apply to 2-D barcode recognition as follows: The requirement for a minimum distance between 2 identical 2-D barcodes has been removed. A new property called Min2DLength (minimum length of a

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How to migrate from BardecodeFiler Desktop to BardecodeFiler Service

admin September 7, 2021 BardecodeFiler, Documentation, Knowledge Base

Steps to BardecodeFiler Desktop to BardecodeFiler Service: 1. Save your current BardecodeFiler settings to an “ini” file. 2. Right click on BardecodeFiler and select “Run as admin” 3. Go to Options/Service Settings/BardecodeFiler Service 4. Import the settings from the “ini” file. 5. Adjust the input/output/processed and exception folders (they do not get imported). 6. Set

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Softek Barcode Reader SDK for Linux Version 9.1.1.1 has been released

admin December 10, 2020 Documentation, Knowledge Base, News, Settings, Software Development Kits

Softek Barcode Reader SDK for Linux Version 9.1.1.1 has been released. The main change in this version is the addition of functions to read from TIF, and JPEG files held in memory rather than as files on disc. The new function is called mtScanBarCodeFromString. The C interface has also been brought in line with the

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Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows Version 9.1.1.1 released

admin December 10, 2020 Documentation, Knowledge Base, News, Settings, Software Development Kits

Softek Barcode Reader SDK for Windows Version 9.1.1.1 has been released. The main change in this version is the addition of functions to read from TIF, PDF, JPEG,GIF or PNG files held in memory rather than as files on disc. The new functions are called ScanBarCodeFromString for the DLL or ScanBarCodeFromByteArray for the .Net interface.

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How to convert Adobe PDF to TIF on Linux using Ghostscript

admin September 3, 2020 Documentation, Knowledge Base, Software Development Kits

Here is the command line to convert an Adobe PDF document to TIF on Linux, in a suitable format to be used as input for the Linux version of the Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit: For color documents: gs -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=tiffscaled24 -sCompression=lzw -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.tif input.pdf For black and white: gs -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sCompression=lzw -dBATCH

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Using opencv images with the Softek barcode reader toolkit

admin January 16, 2020 Documentation, Knowledge Base, News, Software Development Kits

Here’s some C code that shows how to read an opencv cv::Mat image using the barcode reader toolkit. The main points to note are: Read the image using the cv::IMREAD_GRAYSCALE flag Flip the image vertically Align the scan lines to 4 byte boundaries #include <barcode.h> #include <iostream> #include <opencv2/core/core.hpp> #include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp> #include <opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp> static void

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Reading binary data from a barcode using Visual C#

admin April 8, 2019 Documentation, Knowledge Base, Software Development Kits

If you are handling binary data in barcodes such as you find in some 2-D barcodes (PDF417, QrCode or DataMatrix) then the following method will allow you to create a byte array that contains the original binary data from the barcode – including all the null and 8-bit values. 1. Using Quoted printable Encoding barcode.Encoding

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How to detect a scan time out on Linux

admin September 26, 2017 Documentation, Knowledge Base, Settings, Software Development Kits

The default time out for the scan of a page on Linux is 5000ms, but how can you detect if a time out has occurred? The following snippet of C code can be used in bardecode.c at the end of the main function…         uint16 t;         STGetParameter(hBarcode, ST_DID_TIMEOUT, &t) ;         if (t)                

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Possible values for bar code type

admin April 7, 2017 Barcode Specification, Documentation, Knowledge Base, Software Development Kits

Here is a list of all possible values that can be returned for the bar code type. Note that GS1-128 is a subset of Code 128 and is controlled by the ReadCode128 property. Value Property STSetParameter value for Linux “CODABAR” ReadCodabar ST_READ_CODABAR “CODE128” ReadCode128 ST_READ_CODE128 “CODE25” ReadCode25 ST_READ_CODE25 “CODE39” ReadCode39 ST_READ_CODE39 “CODE93” ReadCode93 ST_READ_CODE93 “DATABAR”

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Auto-detection of UTF8 data now available for PDF-417 and DataMatrix

admin April 29, 2015 Blog, Documentation, Knowledge Base, News, Settings, Software Development Kits

Version 8.1.1.7 of the Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows has been released. This version addresses an issue with handling UTF-8 encoded data in a PDF-417 or DataMatrix bar code. The problem… Say you have a PDF417 bar code that encodes the characters: キヤノン電子 ….in UTF-8 format with the following bytes of hex data: E3

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