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
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
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
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
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
BardecodeFiler Version 2.5.1.1 has been released. This version processes large files in the desktop interface much faster. For example, a 6000 page PDF file should process at at least 2X the speed of version 2.4.
Version 2.4.5 of BardecodeFiler has been released and can be downloaded from the following URL: http://www.bardecode.com/en1/download/ This version includes an update to the latest Debenu library (version 1611) and a bug fix that prevents the build up of zero length files in a users temporary folder. License key – if you are already on either
Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows Version 8.3.2 has been released. The changes in this version are all related to PDF processing: The Foxit/Debenu Quick PDF Library has been upgraded to version 1511. If the toolkit is unable to open a document using the Foxit/Debenu direct access functions then it will automatically revert to the
The following new releases are now available for download: 1. Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows Version 8.3.1 Main changes: Improved handling of skewed images. Support for extended Datamatrix rectangle formats. Upgrade to Debenu PDF Library Version 14.11 Support for password protected PDF files Download from http://www.bardecode.com/en1/download/ License key compatibility: Keys valid for version 8.2.1
We are pleased to announce the release of BardecodeFiler version 2.4.2.1. The main difference is that this version uses .Net 4 rather than .Net 3.5. Here is a complete list of changes… BardecodeFiler now uses the .Net 4 framework. Option for adding date/time and page count fields to results.csv log file. Added %UID token –