Reading Bar Codes with zxing Java Library

[Bob Minteer]

Has anyone had success using the zxing library to read/decode bar codes with ScriptMaster ?   I generate them just fine using the Barcode4J library.

 

I think I am having dependency issues (take a pill...) and not much forward momentum getting it to work.

 

Examples, suggestions or commiseration are greatly accepted.  

 

regards...

 

Bob Minteer

 

[john renfrew]

Bob

this works for QR codes definitely and most of the other supported types at https://github.com/zxing/zxing/, I think I have other bit of code too... just needs the javase-nn.jar and the code-nn.jar

I am using 2.3 with Java  6 at the moment

 

I pass is the name of a container field in the table I run this in as fm_container

import com.google.zxing.*
import com.google.zxing.client.j2se.*
import com.google.zxing.common.*
import javax.imageio.ImageIO

barCodeInputStream = fmpro.getContainerStream (fm_container)
barCodeBufferedImage = ImageIO.read(barCodeInputStream)

LuminanceSource source = new BufferedImageLuminanceSource(barCodeBufferedImage)
bitmap = new BinaryBitmap(new HybridBinarizer(source)) 
reader = new MultiFormatReader()
try {
	result = reader.decode(bitmap)  
} catch ( Exception e) {
	return e
}
return result.getText()

[Bob Minteer]

Many thanks John!  

 

That has put me back on track.   

 

I am attempting to read barcodes from PDF's.

 

While working through this, I kept testing and tweaking... to no avail.     

 

Then it occured to me, "Doh!  I have to convert the PDF's to images like tiff before zxing will do the decoding".

 

Your code works great on images with EAN128, Code39 and QR.

 

Now I am on to working out conversion via the Apache PDFBox library so that I am passing an image to zxing library.

 

regards...

 

Bob Minteer