ZBar - Misplaced Pages

ZBar

Screenshot of ZBar
Developer(s)	ZBar developers

Stable release	0.23.93 / 9 January 2024; 11 months ago (9 January 2024)

Repository	github.com/mchehab/zbar
Written in	C
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Barcode reader
License	GNU LGPL
Website	https://git.linuxtv.org/zbar.git (version 0.20+) / http://zbar.sourceforge.net/ (up to version 0.10)

ZBar is an open-source C barcode reading library with C++, Python, Perl, and Ruby bindings. It is also implemented on Linux and Microsoft Windows as a command-line application, and as an iPhone application.

It was originally developed at SourceForge. As the latest official release (version 0.10) was in 2009-10-27, a fork was created in March, 2017, converting it to use qt5 and libv4l, improving it to better support the Video4Linux API version 2.

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

References

"Release 0.23.93".
"Support for both Python 2 and 3 is provided via PyZbar package". Pypi.org. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
^ Brown, Jeff. "ZBar bar code reader". Zbar.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
"ZBar bar code reader – Download version 0.20 and upper". Linustv.org.
"ZBar – Download older versions". Zbar.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
Tyler, Joshua (January 2005). "ZBar Brings Barcode And QR Code Scanning To Your Desktop". Lifehacker.com.au. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
Brown, Jeff. "ZBar bar code reader – iPhone". Zbar.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
"ZBar bar code reader - Browse /zbar at SourceForge". Sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
"GitHub - mchehab/zbar". GitHub. 2024-01-09. Retrieved 2024-01-12.

External links

This free and open-source software article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: