What type of BarCode is this?

Answer 1

If you are using Java:

http://code.google.com/p/zxing/

Open Source, supports multiple types of barcodes

A list of software can be found here:

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Bar_Code/Decoding/

Answer 2

I don't recognize this bar code - but here are a few sites that might help you (libraries etc.) - assuming you use C# and .NET (you didn't specify in your question):

• http://www.idautomation.com/csharp/
• http://www.bokai.com/barcode.net.htm

Answer 3

IANABCE (I Am Not A Barcode Expert), but looking at the barcodes here, I'd say this looks closest to the UCC/EAN-128 symbology, character set 'C'.

Do you know what the barcode is used for? What's the application domain?

Answer 4

It looks a bit like Code 128 but http://www.onlinebarcodereader.com/ does not recognize it as such. Maybe the image quality isn't good enough.

Answer 5

zbar thinks it's Code 128 but the decoded string is suspiciously different than the barcode's own caption. Maybe it's a charset difference?

~/src/zebra-0.5/zebraimg$ ./zebraimg ~/src/barcode/reader/barcode.jpg 
CODE-128:10657958011502540742
scanned 1 barcode symbols from 1 images in 0.04 seconds

My old copy was called zebra but the library is now called zbar. http://sourceforge.net/projects/zbar/