I'm planning to develop a simple barcode reader for iOS that will read the barcode and return all the information it can extract from the internet.
So far I decided to use the ZBar SDK in the app and successfully read the barcode which return a decoded string of the barcode.
Now I wonder how can I extract the useful information from it. I have limited knowledge on barcode so I suppose there will be an online database so that I can input the barcode result and fetch the data from it.
Can anyone give me some suggestion?
Thanks in advance.
Zxing the best library for Bar code and QR Code scan It Support both Android and iPhone SDK. This is used by most of the commercial mobile cash application
More Information on ZXING
Also there is anther library
ZBar. Seems to be a very capable library.
Good luck
Chamath Jeevan
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We need to read Inverted QR Codes on both Android and iOS.
On Android we wrote a piece of native code to use QRDroid to do the scanning as it is capable of scanning both regular and inverted codes.
On iOS the standard barcode reader app is also capable of reading both regular and inverted codes.
Is there a way to to use the native app to do the scanning and then simply grab the output from it to use in our own app.
The first sample of native code we wrote implemented ZXing in iOS and the current code for QR reading is a cn1lib you can easily edit to do anything.
We also created a cn1lib for scandit which is a proprietary scanner library. You can use those as references.
The state of code scanning on iOS is a bit worse than Android so I'm not sure if you'll find what you are looking for.
Is there a way, using Apple's built-in iOS barcode API, to scan the last 5 digits of an add-on barcode?
If not, is there a free SDK solution out that that is known to work well and has stayed up to date with the latest iOS versions? ZBar works but is WAY outdated.
See the comic book example here:
Tried about 10 different online barcode detectors, and neither of them can decode that barcode.
Seems this barcode has some special format which is not supported with current barcode readers...
If your having trouble with Apples Barcode API i suggest trying MLKit from Firebase i am able to scan and get OCR from image with few lines of code.
https://firebase.google.com/docs/ml-kit/ios/read-barcodes
I tried https://github.com/hyperoslo/BarcodeScanner. It is okay with the swift 4.1. Also, It is reading the larger barcode under the direct sales label on left but not the smaller on the right with 00113 label above it. Can you please confirm that these barcodes are valid? As the application from this wrapper is working on other barcodes.
We are developing a game what is based on our engine. The concept of the engine is to read NFC and QR codes, launch our application, and send a request to our server, what is respond to the application. It's done on android.
We want to port this engine to iOs and Windows also. So our plan is to hire developers for this project. Before 4-5 month, we surprised, iPhone does not supports NFC, they will use iBeacon, but we was very happy, when we realized, iPhone 6 will have NFC reader. And then, after I made some research on the net, I was so sad, because I read everywhere, apples NFC is restricted the NFC to Apple Pay.
Because i really do not know apple devices, i have some questions.
Is it possible to do this with iOs? If NFC is not an option, can we do this with QR reader? If no, of course we won't hiring developers for iOs.
And i know, this is a stupid question, but maybe: does anybody know, what is apples plan in the future with NFC?
You can implement QR reader function in iOS app using C++ libraries: ZXing and ZBar. Personally I recomment you to use ZBar, it is better for QR codes but cannot read bar codes.
You can use iBeacons with iOS.
Apple's Passbook application works through optical scanning of QR codes.
Currently i am trying to develop an iOS app for reading various 2D barcode & i have seen Passkit Library is able to read following bar code (PDF417, Aztec, QR).
So is it possible to create such kind of app using Passkit library ?
If possible, what are the methods for reading & extracting information from these bar codes?
I've used the zBar SDK with good success.
It is able to read QR codes and many kinds of bar codes.
It was very fast at detecting and decoding images with the camera.
It is available to install via CocoaPods (www.cocoapods.org) which makes it very easy to install and get started.
I am workin on BB app and I need to implement QR reader or scanner into it. I know that RIM supported a library of it in OS6 and in ZXing but actually I need to read an example of how can I implement it within my code.
You can get a clear idea to how to develop a qr code in OS 6.0 From This KB Article
If you Try to develop It in OS 5.0 http://aliirawan-wen.blogspot.com/2011/05/barcode-scanner-for-blackberry-os-50.html will help you.