Library with siple api for bar code recognition
All files supported by ImageMagick are supported. Codebar internals process image to get best possible view of barcode, and convert its to plain bitmap on which all reading operations are performed.
- EAN13
- UPC-A
require 'codebar'
barcode = Codebar::Barcode.new('/path/to/image_file.gif')
barcode.decode(:ean13)
You could also try to decode Barcode without specyfing bar code encoding standard. In such case library will choose appropriate standard (if such is implemented and image could be processed).
require 'codebar'
barcode = Codebar::Barcode.new('/path/to/image_file.gif')
barcode.decode
Codebar depends on two external gems:
mini_magick- image processing tasks,chunky_png- cutting acutal pixels from image file.
Former indicates rather heavy dependency on ImageMagick.
Codebar was tested on
Linux ubuntu 2.6.38-13-generic
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-linux]
ImageMagick 6.6.7-5 2011-02-06 Q16
And all specs are green, but it's proven to fail on certain setups (issue #6).
- Rotation detection (bar code upside down),
- Distance algorithms for not exact matching numbers,
- Support of different bar code encoding standards,
- Support of different platforms.
Following list contains sample images used during tests and development
- ean13_clear3.png - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International\_Article\_Number\_(EAN)
- ean13_blurry.png - http://people.inf.ethz.ch/adelmanr/batoo/
- isbn13_blurry.png - Robust 1D Barcode Recognition on Mobile Devices by Johann C. Rocholl, Sebastian Klenk, Gunther Heidemann
- ean13_color.png - Research and Application of the EAN-13 Barcode Recognition on Iphone by YeMin Li, Li Zeng
- ean13_clear5.png - http://jjil.googlecode.com/
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