22 Aug
2002
22 Aug
'02
9:55 p.m.
In message <5.0.0.25.0.20020822170629.02548000@pc>, John Foust writes:
At 09:28 PM 8/22/2002 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
I'm not sure about end-user packages, but I work with some
OCR libraries that do barcode decoding as well. For that
matter, I've written a Code128 decoder at work. Once you
know how wide the spaces and bars are, the decoding is
pretty easy. Determining those widths turns out to be
trickier than you'd expect.
Brian L. Stuart
I've just spent a few days attempting to read
some old HP41 barcode
programs from the UK HP club journal. Suffice it to say that poor
printing and/or badly produced barcode in the first place can make life
very tedious.
While it's doubtlessly possible to recover marginal barcode, it's not
totally trivial.
I wonder if someone has produced a software program to read the
barcodes embedded within text, as part of a larger OCR program.