barcode reading software
Alongside the fish and waves the decorate the cobbled streets in Rio de Janeiro, QR codes have begun to appear. This week, the first of around 30 planned QR codes was completed, built from black and smartphone or tablet users to reach a website available in English, Portuguese and Spanish containing a map of the …
We are pleased to announce the release of Version 7.5.1 of the Linux SDK. Existing customers with support and upgrade cover will be contacted in due course. This update brings the Linux SDK in line with the Windows variant with the introduction of support for the ubiquitous QR-Code and significant improvements to Datamatrix and PDF-417 recognition. The new …
We are pleased to announce the minor release for the Windows SDK, V 7.5.1.22, which has various improvements. One of the biggest changes is the improved handling of skewed QR-Codes, which can now tolerate a far greater amount of skew. If you are an existing customer then you are welcome to upgrade for free, the …
One American hardware outlet has recently announced that with the use of barcodes customers will be able to ensure they get exactly the right color. It is all too common for the average Joe doing his DIY, to get halfway through that final wall and run out of paint, only to find that you can’t …
It is clear that any company working in the barcode reading industry owes a huge debt of gratitude to Norman Woodland, since without barcodes there would be no need for barcode reading. As silly, and obvious, as that statement sounds it is only a small distance from the position Norman found himself in following the …
We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.9.1 of our ready-to-use barcode reading application. Below are the details of the new features which continues to make BardecodeFiler one of the most powerful barcode reading applications available. PDF documents are now split in such a way as to preserve searchable data and other properties of …
This article shows how to convert a string that has been double encoded using UTF-8. For example, say you have the string Müller instead of the string Müller. How did it happen? The letter ü is encoded in UTF-8 as 2 bytes: 195 and 188 If you encoded the bytes again then the 195 converts to …
One change in version 7.5.1.18 of the sdk and version 1.8.1 of BardecodeFiler that has caused some backward compatibility issues is in the area of regular expressions. This version uses Microsoft RegEx matching and one important difference lies in the use of {} brackets. In previous versions of the sdk you could use the following …
We have recently added the capability to restore default settings with a single click in the BardecodeFiler application and the SDK Demo. The reset button can be found under the ‘import/export’ tab in ‘options’ and restores default settings. It is worth noting that it does not reset the file paths for input and output directories. …
Here’s some example code that you can use in an Excel VBA macro… Before you begin, make sure you have downloaded and installed the barcode reader sdk for windows, and run REGISTER.BAT as administrator in the bin folder. Set Barcode = CreateObject(“SoftekBarcodeCOM.Barcode”) ‘ Set the license key here Barcode.LicenseKey = “MY LICENSE KEY” Barcode.ScanDirection = …
