On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Robocop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of any decent (open source or commercial) python > barcode recognition tools or libraries. I need to read barcodes from > pdfs or images, so it will involve some OCR algorithm. I also only > need to read the code 93 symbology, so it doesn't have to be very > fancy. The most important thing to me is that it outputs in some > python friendly way, or ideally that it is written in python. Any > tips would be great! > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
If you don't mind using a commercial Java lib, use http://www.tasman.co.uk/bars/readme.html. I'ts not exactly cheap, but it works very well, and support is good. The only suggestion I can give you is: stay away from mixed OCR/Barcode recognition software; usually they are much slower. Regards -- Marco Bizzarri http://notenotturne.blogspot.com/ http://iliveinpisa.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list