Re: Generating and Reading Barcodes

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I see now.
Unfortunately you will need some sort of image recognition library.

I am positive that such algorithms/programs exists because they work in real
life with the barcode readers.
Most likely you will easily develop one but my advice would be to buy

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Programming/Components_and_Libraries/DTK_Barcode_Reader_SDK.html
or type into Google

"barcode reader algorithm from tiff file"




George.


"Tod Birdsall, MCSD for .NET" <tbirdsall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 5, 2:42 pm, "George Ter-Saakov" <gt-...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are many different barcode schemas.
The most easiest one is Code39

Almost all of them are pretty much a special font. Meaning that A is 2
fat
lines and 3 narrow lines, B is 1 fat line, 2 narrow and then 1 fat.......
(it's just a sample).

So to insert barcode into anything you simply need to output text with
special font. You can download code39 font for free from internet. The
differences between schemas is in how they have error corrections.
For example code39 is prefixed and suffixed with symbol '*'

So Order number 345 in code#9 notation will be *39*. Then Barcode reader
will automatically recognize it and enter into computer as if you punched
keys 3 and 9 on a keyboard and hit enter (that behavior is configurable
in a
reader)

To Read barcode you need a scanner similar to those you can see in a
store.

George.

"Tod Birdsall, MCSD for .NET" <tbirds...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hi All,

I am looking for recommendations on ways/components to implement the
following features in my application:

1. Dynamically generate a barcode image to insert into a PDF document
using iText.

2. Read the previously generated barcode from a tiff image.

Has anyone had experience with the above and could offer
recommendations?

Thanks.

Tod Birdsall
software blog:http://tod1d.net- Hide quoted text -

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Hi,

I should have been more specific. The user will print a document
containing the dynamically generated barcode. After filling out the
document by hand, the user will fax the document back to me. I will
receive it as a tiff file. I would like my app to read the barcode off
the tiff file and handle the document accordingly.

Thanks.

Tod Birdsall
software blog: http://tod1d.net



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