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 …
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 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 …
When distributing SoftekBarcodeLib2.dll you may find that you get a “side by side” error message which references the component. For Version 7.4.1 and later… For x86 based systems, the solution is to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) from the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a5c84275-3b97-4ab7-a40d-3802b2af5fc2&displaylang=en For x64 based systems, the solution is to install the Microsoft …
Delphi 2009 developers may have found some problems passing strings to and from the toolkit. This seems to be down to unicode support in Delphi 2009 and can be resolved with some simple code changes. For example, in previous versions of Delphi you might have code similar to: NumCodes:=stScanBarCode(PChar(OpenDialog1.FileName)); …but in Delphi 9 this needs …
The main requirement is for each black or white bar in a barcode to be clearly visible on the image. All barcodes have at least 2 sizes of bar and the image needs to be of high enough quality to show this. For example, a Code 39 barcode consists of 9 bars per character, of …
