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Regular expressions under 7.5.1.18

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 …

Excel VBA Macro

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 = …

Reducing False Readings

With scanned images it is not uncommon to have noisy documents which can produce false readings. However this can be dealt with using Softek’s software through the methods shown below.   1. Turn off barcode types you do not need to read. For example, say the c53e barcode is of type CODABAR and the barcodes …

Reading Barcodes in VB.Net

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 …

Common error when using the COM object

We often get emails asking why the ScanBarCode method in the SoftekATL.Barcode OCX object returns the value 0 when it works fine in other interfaces. The reason for this is that in the COM interface the number of barcodes found by the ScanBarCode method is stored in the BarCodeCount property. For example, the following code is …

Handling PDF Documents in ASP on x64 Systems

This article explains how to configure your system to allow an ASP application to use the Softek Barcode Reader SDK to process PDF Documents on an x64 system. Symptom: ScanBarCode returns -1 and GetLastError returns 3001. Description: CoCreateInstance is failing and is probably returning E_ACCESSDENIED. This is because IIS_IUSRS does not have permission for Local …

Using the Multi-Threaded set of dll functions

The SoftekBarcode.dll includes a set of functions suitable for use in multi-threaded applications. The multi-threaded functions all require a handle to the toolkit. This is created using the mtCreateBarcodeSession function and released using the mtDestroyBarcodeSession function: hBarcode = mtCreateBarcodeInstance() nBarcodes = mtScanBarCode(hBarcode, “input.tif”) …process the result in some way mtDestroyBarcodeInstance(hBarcode)   All the multi-threaded functions …

Version 7.3.1 for Linux Release Notes

Version 7.3.1 was released on February 30th March 2010. Release notes available here. Please note this is no longer the latest version. 1. GS-1 Databar GS-1 Databar support has been added to toolkit. This includes RSS-14, RSS-14 Stacked, RSS Truncated, RSS Limited, RSS Expanded and RSS Expanded Stacked. There is also support for supplemental information …