On Fri, 8 May 2009, Joe Atzberger wrote:
Google provided the barcode-recognition line-interpolation software as open
source for Android developers to build on. That explains why I have about 4
barcode-scanning apps on the G1.
Note that most common cellphone camera's haven't advanced enough to
I've also been doing some research into this. There are a number of
toolkits out there. zxing gets most of the way there and it has an
iPhone package as well (an app called barcodes). Most of them are
still in the early stages.
I've also seen:
- http://zebra.sourceforge.net/
-
Thanks for the tips. I too am actually hoping to build a single platform
first. I'm thinking that Android has the most robust set of tools
available, but i-Phone or even Palm might be the way to go.
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I'm interested in some advice on building an app to pickup barcode data
through a cell phone camera and return OPAC/Library Thing/WorldCat etc.
results to a mobile interface.
I know that Android has a UPC barcode reader linked to a shopping app, and
I'm wondering if this can be used or repurposed,
I started to do a just bit of web research in this. Open source barcode
photo recognition software looks like it's _just_ starting to become
realistically available. This was the product that looked most
promissing in my web research (not sure if it's what the Android app is
using):
On May 8, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Matt Amory wrote:
I'm interested in some advice on building an app to pickup barcode
data
through a cell phone camera and return OPAC/Library Thing/WorldCat
etc.
results to a mobile interface.
I know that Android has a UPC barcode reader linked to a shopping
Google provided the barcode-recognition line-interpolation software as open
source for Android developers to build on. That explains why I have about 4
barcode-scanning apps on the G1.
Note that most common cellphone camera's haven't advanced enough to get
reliable resolution for barcodes, in
