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Free EAN Database

Hi, I'm looking for a free (as in MIT, Apache, BSD like) EAN database to download and use in my own service. Any hints? Cheers, minime ...

Translating overhead digit in UPC barcode

I've inherited the source to a legacy VB6 barcode library with no documentation. My understanding is it translates an 11-digit number to UPC barcode (I hope I have that right, it might be EAN-8). As far as I can tell, the check digit (right-most trailing number) is calculating correctly, buy the overhead digit (left-most leading number)...

java barcode reader

anyone have any idea about how to create java program that can read barcode ...

Address label with 2d barcode

need to locate a postcode driven address labelling software that print a 2d barcode label containing all the address details. Can anybody point me in the right direction? JT ...

Preferred Developer Android Phone for using the ZXing library

Using this library, ZXing, we have a project at school in which we'll implement a inventory system using Android phones. We aim to use an Android phone to be a inexpensive replacement to this: I've read some of the warnings on the FAQ for certain phones. Is there a specific phone that Android developers prefer (with use of the ZXing ...

QR Codes - Camera Orientation/Projection

I am looking for a library or method to decode a QR Code (or potentially another form of 2d barcode) and to be able to actually determine the camera position and orientation. This seems like it should be doable, but I am not entirely sure. Does anyone know what the best route for this is? Or if it is even possible? ...

how do i generate a valid upc?

does anyone know if it is possible to generate a valid upc? if so, how? is it possible to do it in excel / python / .net? the platform does not matter to me ...

barcode fonts vs barcode printer fonts

Does anybody have any idea about the differences between barcode fonts (used as a font in reports) and fonts that are printed directly from a barcode printer? Why should we put a star before and after the barcode font and we don't need that when we use a barcode printer? I've had a lot of issues when I used a barcode font !!!! Any i...

QR Code generation in ASP.NET MVC

Is there a .NET API that generates QR Codes such as this one? I'd like to display these on pages that I expect my users to print out. ...

What's the 2D barcode on Google's new goo.gl URL shortner?

As per an example URL shortened here: http://goo.gl/info/kW1c#week What is the displayed 2D barcode for (copied here): ...

reading a barcode with a webcam

Hey, I'm trying to read a EAN-13 barcode from my webcam. I already wrote a class to do that work. I'm taking a picture from my webcam, trimming it to show ONLY the barcode, and reading the barcode with the code tables from wikipedia. For some reason, the barcode gets trimmed, but the output is always "0-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1". I wonder...

Turn research data into a barcode for inclusion in a thesis?

I would like to include my research data in my thesis. I have investigated sweave but I just can't get it working properly. I then had the bright idea of including the data as a barcode and then printing that in the thesis. Perhaps using QR code. Has anyone done such a thing or have any ideas? My data is in R and my thesis is written i...

Book list - getting book details from amazon using Excel VBA barcode lookups

I have a barcode reader and bunch of books. For each of the books, I want to list the book name and the author in an Excel spreadsheet. My view is that some VBA code connecting to an Amazon web service would make this easier. My questions is - hasn't anyone done this before? Could you point me to the best example. ...

Scanning data matrix bar codes from motorola mc55 using data wedge

Hi i am developing an application in compact framework to be deployed on windows 6.5. I am looking for a solution to scan data matrix bar codes from Motorola mc55. I have installed data wedge in mc55 but it is only scanning linear bar codes. I am trying different complicated settings of data wedge to shift it to some other bode so that...

DataWedge library - Motorola MC55 barcode scanning very slow

Hello I have Motorola MC55 with DataWedge 3.2.4 installed. The issue I encounter is very slow scanning of barcodes, especially those prefixed with 'U' letter. I open the notepad and scan a barcode, text appears very slowly (even 2sec after barcode key trigger). How to tune/fix it to have more performant scanning capability? Regards Dom...

Barcode web site interaction

I'm in the process of designing a web application and I'm thinking about incorporating some barcode reading to facilitate data input. Let's suppose I have a list of tasks a courier needs to do. I would like to print something similar to the following page: +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Task...

Best way to display barcodes from NSString

Hi All, Just wondering what is the best way to display a barcode given a string on the iPhone. I have looked over stackoverflow and google and a few people have different ways each requiring a decent amount of work (I think) and also slightly old so I wanted to get it right first time. One way I've read is using a custom font that you ...

app with Scanning functionality for iphone os 3.x+ with framework of os 4.0+

I am currently developing one application which needs the barcode scanning facility for that I am planning to use the scannerkit SDK, What I want is to build the application for the iphone os 3.x+ but the some framework(CoreMedia and CoreVideo) which scannerkit sdk uses are part of os 4.0+, I had linked this two framework weak, so that I...

How can I rotate a barcode in Java/iReport?

As far as I know, barcode as such can't be rotated (iReport doesn't have that property and neither does the Barbecue Barcode in a Java class). I've seen some examples, but they are incomplete and I don't understand how to use them, eg.: public class BarbecueRenderer extends JRAbstractSvgRenderer { private boolean rotate; private Barcod...

Barcode font not loading dynamically in MS Word when generating RTF from Java using iText

Hi Folks, I am using iText API to generate RTF using Java. The RTF file is generated fine but one requirement is adding a barcode. What i did is: FontFactory.register("c:\\windows\\fonts\\FREE3OF9.ttf", "Free 3 of 9 Extended"); return FontFactory.getFont("Free 3 of 9 Extended",20, Font.NORMAL, Color.BLACK); I tried loading other font...