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
The following VBScript shows how to create a tool that will read the value of a barcode from an image and write the value to a text file. Make sure that SofteATL.dll has been registered before attempting to run. This can be done by right clicking on REGISTER.BAT and selecting “Run as Administrator”. myscript.vbs Dim
2-D barcode formats such as PDF-417 can encode a huge character set, which means that the barcode reader toolkit needs to encode characters outside the normal ASCII range. If the Encoding property is set to 2 then the toolkit will use Unicode encoding, whereby characters can be represented by the string &#N; where N is
This arcticle shows some simple VB.net code snippets that reference the .net component or com object for the SDK in Visual Studio. .NET Managed Class Library with Visual Studio 2003 ‘Add a reference to SoftekBarcodeLib.dll Dim barcode As SoftekBarcodeLib.BarcodeReader barcode = New SoftekBarcodeLib.BarcodeReader ‘Set properties barcode.ReadCode128 = True ‘Read barcodes nBarCodes = barcode.ScanBarCode(Path) ‘Get results
Use the following links to view code snippets for the 3 different interfaces commonly used from Visual Basic 6… ActiveX/OCX Interface ‘Add SoftekBarcode ActiveX Control module by selecting Components from the Projects ‘menu ‘Set properties SoftekBarcode1.ReadCode128 = True ‘Read barcodes nBarCodes = SoftekBarcode1.ScanBarCode(Path) ‘Get results For i = 1 To nBarCodes strBarcode = SoftekBarcode1.GetBarString(i) COM Object