The following code as been kindly contributed by a developer to show how to use the SoftekBarcode DLL interface with Python:<\/p>\n
import ctypes # Load the dll # Create Barcode Instance and Set License Key # Set the license key # Scan some file # print the barcode Python 2.7:<\/p>\n import ctypes # Set up the path to SoftekBarcode.dll # Create Barcode Instance and Set License Key # Configure Scanner for DataMatrix w\/Skew # Scan a code and report on the findings The following code as been kindly contributed by a developer to show how to use the SoftekBarcode DLL interface with Python: Python 3.7: import ctypes from ctypes import * import os # Load the dll softekDLL = ctypes.OleDLL(“C:\\\\tmp\\\\SoftekBarcodedll.dll”) # Create Barcode Instance and Set License Key barCode1 = softekDLL.mtCreateBarcodeInstance() # Set the license key softekDLL.mtSetLicenseKey(barCode1, … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,18,203,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-knowledge-base","category-news","category-software-development-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPython 3.7:<\/p>\n
\nfrom ctypes import *
\nimport os<\/p>\n
\nsoftekDLL = ctypes.OleDLL(\"C:\\\\tmp\\\\SoftekBarcodedll.dll\")<\/p>\n
\nbarCode1 = softekDLL.mtCreateBarcodeInstance()<\/p>\n
\nsoftekDLL.mtSetLicenseKey(barCode1, 'your license key'.encode('utf-8'))<\/p>\n
\nn = softekDLL.mtScanBarCode(barCode1,'\\\\path\\\\to\\\\some\\\\file.jpg'.encode('utf-8'))<\/p>\n
\nprint (ctypes.c_char_p(softekDLL.mtGetBarString(barCode1,1)).value)
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nfrom ctypes import *
\nimport os<\/p>\n
\nsoftek = r’C:\\\\Your\\\\Path\\\\To\\\\softek_barcode_sdk\\\\x86′
\nos.environ[‘PATH’] = ‘;’.join([softek, os.environ[‘PATH’]])
\nsoftekDLL = ctypes.OleDLL(os.path.join(softek, ‘SoftekBarcode.dll’))<\/p>\n
\nbarCode1 = softekDLL.mtCreateBarcodeInstance()
\nsoftekDLL.mtSetLicenseKey(barCode1,’Your License Key’)<\/p>\n
\nsoftekDLL.mtSetReadDataMatrix(barCode1,True)
\nsoftekDLL.mtSetSkewedDatamatrix(barCode1,True)
\nsoftekDLL.mtSetSkewTolerance(barCode1,1)<\/p>\n
\n# c_char_p() effectively casts the result to a char string
\nn = softekDLL.mtScanBarCode(barCode1,’C:\\\\Your\\\\Path\\\\To\\\\DSCN3724.JPG’)
\nprint “%s %s Found” % (n,c_char_p(softekDLL.mtGetBarStringType(barCode1,1)).value)
\nprint c_char_p(softekDLL.mtGetBarString(barCode1,1)).value<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"