ZBar bar code reader
ZBar Bar Code Reader is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, such as video streams, image files and raw intensity sensors. It supports EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 93, Code 39, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, QR Code and SQ Code.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Works Offline
- Command line interface
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- QR Code Reader
- Barcode Scanner
- Webcam Support
Tags
- qrcode-reader
- cli-tool
- qrcode-scanner
- QR Code
- QR Code Decoder
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ZBar bar code reader information
Developed by
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (mchehab) Licensing
Open Source (LGPL-2.1) and Free product.Written in
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What is ZBar bar code reader?
ZBar Bar Code Reader is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, such as video streams, image files and raw intensity sensors. It supports EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 93, Code 39, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, QR Code and SQ Code.
Included with the library are basic applications for decoding captured bar code images and using a video device (e.g. webcam) as a bar code scanner. For application developers, language bindings are included for C, C++, Python 2 and Perl as well as GUI widgets for Qt, GTK and PyGTK 2.0.
Zbar also supports sending the scanned codes via dbus, allowing its integration with other applications.
Comments and Reviews
It is easy (but not for dummies!) and quick. It just works:
$ qrencode "To be? Or not to be? It is a question." -o hamlet_question.png $ zbarimg hamlet_question.png QR-Code:To be? Or not to be? It is a question. scanned 1 barcode symbols from 1 images in 0.01 seconds