http://www.barcodehq.com/primer.html#READERS seems to indicate that "decoder" would be the term to use.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:58 AM, sawyer x <xsawy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think Barcode::OCR depicts by the name exactly what it does. It does OCR > of barcodes. Perfect. The rest I would have to open to read what they do > exactly. Barcode::OCR is sself explanatory, IMHO. But "doing OCR of barcodes" is ambiguous. Optical character recognition often captures style info as well as character sequences, at least the one that came with my scanner a few years ago does, and very well too -- scanning magazine articles into pdfs resulted in images that looked just like the pages, except that the text in the middle of the page was clipboardable while towards the spine, where things got skewed, there was a big vertical image -- I was, and remain, impressed. Based on that as an experience with OCR, I might expect Barcode::OCR to somehow allow barcodes to pass through an OCR process intact, perhaps by adjsuting image compression parameters within their boundaries. I think Barcode::Decoder depicts by the name exactly what it does. It decodes barcodes. Perfect. The rest I would have to open to read what they do exactly. Barcode::Decoder is sself explanatory, IMHO. -- Freedom's colors are red, white and black and blue.
