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Category : Documentation

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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Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows Version 8.1.1.6 released

admin April 7, 2015 Documentation, Knowledge Base, News, Software Development Kits

Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows Version 8.1.1.6 has been released with the following fixes: 1. Fixed handle leak on multi-processor systems. 2. Modified Code 39 parameters to handle larger differences between the sizes of spaces and bars.

Reading bar codes from memory bitmaps using ScanBarCodeFromBitmap

admin September 19, 2014 Blog, Documentation, Knowledge Base, News, Software Development Kits

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

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Appending PDF pages that contain the same barcode value

admin July 23, 2014 BardecodeFiler, Documentation, Knowledge Base, Settings No Comments

This article discusses how to use BardecodeFiler to collate pages containing the same bar code value from various PDF documents. For example, say you receive orders from customers and each order form contains a bar code that identified the customer with a unique code. You scan the order forms in random batches as they are

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Release notes for version 7.6.1.1

admin February 10, 2014 Blog, Documentation, Knowledge Base, News, Settings No Comments

The main changes for version 7.6.1 are in the areas of performance control and recognition of skewed bar codes. Performance Control TimeOut is a new property that specifies the maximum amount of time the toolkit should spend searching for a barcode within a single page of a document. It does not include the time taken

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Failed to load SoftekBarcode.dll

admin November 21, 2013 Documentation, Knowledge Base No Comments

If whilst trying to use the Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit it returns to error message “Failed to load SoftekBarcode.dll” then a possible cause of the problem may be that you have the wrong version of the .dll for the system you are using. The following should help to remedy this problem: When you create an

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Return Values for GetBarStringType Function

admin October 10, 2013 Documentation, Knowledge Base No Comments

We have had a number of requests for a full list of the possible return values for the GetBarStringType function in Version 7.5.1.35 of the SDK. Below are the possible return values from this function: PDF417 DATAMATRIX QRCODE CODE39 EAN13 EAN8 UPCA UPCE SHORTCODE128 CODE128 GS1-128 PATCH DATABAR CODE93 CODE25 SHORTCODE128 CODABAR For further information on

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QR-Codes and UTF-8 encoding

admin October 2, 2013 Barcode Specification, Documentation, Knowledge Base, Settings No Comments

This article explains issues relating to the use of UTF-8 encoded data in QR-Codes. There are several ways in which data can be stored in a QR-Code, one of which is called Byte Mode. This mode allows data to be encoded in a sequence of 8-bit byte values, in other words an array of integer

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CodabarMaxVariance - max width variance for codabar characters

admin December 8, 2010 Documentation, Knowledge Base No Comments

Overview CodabarMaxVariance is the maximum percentage variance that a character in a codabar barcode can have from the average for that barcode. Type: SHORT Default value: 20 Note: This is an Advanced property and can only be set using LoadXMLSettings

Code25Checksum - handle final character of code 25 barcode as checksum

admin December 8, 2010 Documentation, Knowledge Base No Comments

Overview When True the toolkit will only report Code 25 barcodes where the last character is a valid checksum for the rest of the barcode. The toolkit expects a Code 25 checksum to be calculated using the following method: Sum all of the even positioned characters (the right hand message character is always even), and multiply by 3.

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