Softek Software is pleased to have received the following press release from Scout Inc: Scout provides complete Inventory Management solutions to a wide variety of customers around the world. Softek has helped us release an Iphone Application to scan Bar Codes and connect to inventory in our Cloud based services. Please visit our web site …
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Version 7.3.1i of the iPhone SDK Released
Version 7.3.1i of the Softek barcode Reader Toolkit for the iPhone has been released to work-around a problem in the AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer class in IOS 4.1. The problem is described on the following post on the forum at the Apple developer center: https://devforums.apple.com/message/291837 and we’ve put some detail regarding the code change in our knowledge base Please contact sales@bardecode.com should you …
Important change to the iPhone SDK
Apple’s iTunes store is no longer accepting applications that use the UIGetScreenImage function. This function was used in the sample application distributed with the Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for the iPhone and any applications developed using this technique will no longer be accepted on the iTunes store. Apple recommends using the AVCaptureSession class to access …
Important change to the iPhone SDK
Apple’s iTunes store is no longer accepting applications that use the UIGetScreenImage function. This function was used in the sample application distributed with the Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for the iPhone and any applications developed using this technique will no longer be accepted on the iTunes store. Apple recommends using the AVCaptureSession class to access …
Linux SDK Version 7.3.1 released
Version 7.3.1 of the Softek Barcode Reader SDK for Linux has now been released containing 2 important improvements to the toolkit. Color Images Previous versions of the toolkit used a single threshold value to determine whether a pixel was considered black or white. Although the toolkit tried to calculate this value, it was often …
ColorProcessingLevel – control time taken processing color images
Overview The ColorProcessingLevel property controls the amount of processing time spent reading barcode values from color images. Values range from 0 to 5, with a default of 2. A low value will process color images faster but accuracy and read-rate levels will be lower than if a high value is used. Please note that …
ReadDatabar – read GS1 databar barcodes
Overview When set to TRUE the toolkit will search for GS1 Databar barcodes. The following types of GS1 Databar are supported: RSS-14 RSS-14 Truncated RSS-14 Stacked RSS-14 Stacked Omnidirectional RSS Limited RSS Expanded RSS Expanded Stacked Please note the the bounding rectangle for stacked versions of the barcode currently only includes either the top-most …
DatabarOptions – set options for reading GS1 Databar barcodes
Overview The DatabarOptions property can be used to set various options for GS1 Databar recognition. All options are turned on by default, but some applications may find it useful to disable certain features for performance reasons. The property works as a mask and can be constructed from the following values: 1 Read the supplementary 2-D …
VIN barcode reader for the iPhone
We are pleased to announce a VIN (vehicle identification number) barcode reader for the iPhone 3GS model. Although a VIN barcode is just a Code 39 barcode, a type which is supported by the existing version of the toolkit, it’s slightly long for reliable reading through the view finder. The narrow bars and spaces tend …
Version 7.3.1 Released for Windows
Version 7.3.1 of the Softek Barcode Reader SDK for Windows has now been released containing 2 important improvements to the toolkit. Color Images Previous versions of the toolkit used a single threshold value to determine whether a pixel was considered black or white. Although the toolkit tried to calculate this value, it was often …