README

This is the README file for the docker-zbar project. The object of the project is to build a Docker container that contains a Perl based QR code reader based on Barcode::ZBar (although it can probably be used to read barcodes too. ;-) )

Requirements

• make
• docker

Building the Container

The container is based on amazon-linux:2. Building the container can be done by running the make against the Makefile. The build will produce output the results of the build to STDOUT and a log file (docker.log).

make

After all of the components have been built in the container the qr-decode.pl script is run to test the QR code reader.

• The original idea for building a containerized version of a QR code reader was inspired by: Reading QR Codes from Perl
• The qr-decode.pl script was lifted from version 0.04 of Barcode::ZBar

TODO

• Create an Apache based webservice for reading QR codes
• Install webservice on a Fargate cluster