ws-decode
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ws-decode is a bare-bones HTTP interface for decoding 2D barcodes. It works like this:

You send a (binary) POST request to http://localhost:9955/decode containing a PNG or JPG
file and the server will send back a plain-text version of its (the barcode in the image,
of course) message body.

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EXAMPLE
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	curl -v -H 'Content-Type: image/jpeg' -H 'Expect:' --data-binary \
	  '@/Users/asc/Desktop/aa.jpg' http://127.0.0.1:9955/decode

	About to connect() to 127.0.0.1 port 9955
	* Trying 127.0.0.1...
	* connected
	* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 9955
	> POST /decode HTTP/1.1
	User-Agent: curl/7.13.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0) libcurl/7.13.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3
	Host: 127.0.0.1:9955
	Pragma: no-cache
	Accept: */*
	Content-Type: image/jpeg
	Content-Length: 4930

	< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
	< Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:50:39 GMT
	< Content-length: 28
	* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
	* Closing connection #0

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That's it. It will not make you a pony. No. No ponies for you.

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ERRORS
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Errors are returned with the HTTP status code 500. Specific error codes
and messages are returned both in the message body as XML and in the
'X-ErrorCode' and 'X-ErrorMessage' headers.

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NOTES
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By default, ws-decode runs on port 9955. You can override
this value by specifying your own port number as the first
(command-line) argument when you start the server or by
setting the 'PORT' variable in the start.sh script.

The maximum size of a file that you may POST to ws-decode
is 512kb.

There is no logging to speak of.

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SEE ALSO
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http://code.google.com/p/zxing/
http://javablog.co.uk/2007/10/27/http-server-api-backport-to-java-5/
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2008/02/05/fox#ws-decode

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VERSION
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0.1

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LICENSE
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Copyright (c) 2008 Aaron Straup Cope. All Rights Reserved.

This is free software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as the GPL license.