ZBar
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ZBar is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, including webcams. As its development stopped in 2012, I took the task of keeping it updated with the V4L2 API. This is the main repository for it. There's a clone at at LinuxTV.org, and another one at gitlab.
Features
- Image scanning
- Real-time scanning of video streams
- C++, Python, Perl, and Ruby bindings
- Qt, GTK+, and PyGTK GUI bindings
- Recognition of EAN-13, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR code symbologies
See also
- Barcode
- QR Code
- Data Matrix
- libzbar - QR Code scanner engine for QR+Emoji
- zbar-py - zbar package
- pyzbar - Read one-dimensional barcodes and QR codes from Python 2 and 3.
- QReader - Robust and Straight-Forward solution for reading difficult and tricky QR codes within images in Python. Supported by a YOLOv8 QR Segmentation model.
- cv2.QRCodeDetector - QR code detector built into OpenCV.
- PDF417 - A stacked linear barcode format defined in ISO 15438.