barcode reading software
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 …
I have now spent quite a while dealing with troublesome images with the Softek Barcode Reader SDK and have found several tricks which solve almost all problems which could arise. The issue is almost always image quality. Poorly scanned colour images or simply a low resolution leading to the bars coming together are often the …
We often receive emails asking us to explain why our SDK is unable to decode a barcode from an attached image, and the answer is often that the resolution of the image is too low; but why does image resolution play such an important role in the decoding of a barcode? What is resolution? For …
This document explains how the properties of the toolkit can effect the speed at which PDF documents are processed. The PDF extension allows you to read barcodes from PDF documents. Version 7.4.1 or later… Version 7.4.1 introduced a faster and more accurate method of processing image-only PDF documents (e.g, a PDF document generated as the …
Here are some examples of the good, the bad and the ugly of the barcode world. The Good: Code 39 Code 25 Interlaced Code 128 EAN-8 EAN-13 UPC-A UPC-E The Bad and the Ugly: Example 1 – Too many asterisk characters. Example 2 – Extra character returned by toolkit Example 3 – A box around the barcode Example …
