We’re pleased to announce that the Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows is now available on NuGet – the package manager for .Net at the following URL: https://www.nuget.org/packages/SoftekBarcodeNet/
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Using the Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit on Android with ScanBarCodeFromRGBABitmap
The Android version of the SDK cannot read directly from image files but it can read from a bitmap using code similar to the following: Barcode barcode = new Barcode(); // Load your image file into a bitmap int width = bitmap.getWidth(); int height = bitmap.getHeight(); byte[] rawBytes = new byte[width * height * 4]; …
2DDOC Barcodes
We’ve had a number of emails about the 2DDOC barcode type being used in French Covid “passports”. The Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit is able to read the data in the barcodes because it is stored using plain text in a DataMatrix symbology, however we do not support the actual verification of the digital signature for …
How to enter your VAT number with ShareIt!
If you are registered for VAT then please use the following steps when making a purchase from our online store: Step 1: Click on “Show more input fields”… Step 2: Click on “Add VAT ID”… Step3: Enter your VAT ID…
Handling multi-line QR Codes in BardecodeFiler
If you are processing multi-line Qr Codes in BardecodeFiler (the same could apply to PDF-417 or DataMatrix barcodes) and want to extract certain lines of data to create the output file name then you will need to use the Reformat feature of BardecodeFiler. The Reformat feature allows you to use the power of regular expressions …
Additional BardecodeFiler Services
You can actually configure as many BardecodeFiler services as you wish, though you can only edit settings for the first 4 services through the BardecodeFiler.exe app. Section 7.3 of the manual explains how to configure extra services, however you will need to configure the set up files in C:\ProgramData\Softek Software\BardecodeFiler manually for each additional service. …
Softek Barcode Reader SDK for Linux Version 9.1.1.1 has been released
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 …
Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows Version 9.1.1.1 released
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. …
How to convert Adobe PDF to TIF on Linux using Ghostscript
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 …
Update to Python interface
We’ve made some changes to the recommended way of interfacing Python on Windows to take account of Python 3 and Windows 64-bit. The first change is in the loading of the DLL file itself.. if platform.machine().endswith(’64’): bardecodeLibrary = os.getcwd() + ‘../../../SoftekBarcode64DLL.dll’ a=CDLL(bardecodeLibrary) else: bardecodeLibrary = os.getcwd() + ‘../../../SoftekBarcodeDLL.dll’ a=WinDLL(bardecodeLibrary) Note the use of CDLL on …