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The application Barcode Scanner is an Android app, from the
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* * {{F-Droid, com.google.zxing.client.android, Barcode Scanner Automatic identification and data capture Barcodes Free and open-source Android software
The application Barcode Scanner is an Android app, from the open-source
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project ZXing (short for Zebra Crossing), that allows an Android device with imaging
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Imaging technology is the application of materials and methods to create, preserve, or duplicate images.
...
hardware (a built-in camera) to scan barcodes
A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form. Initially, barcodes represented data by varying the widths, spacings and sizes of parallel lines. These barcodes, now commonly referred to as linear or o ...
or 2D barcodes and retrieve the data encoded. Information encoded often includes web addresses, geographical coordinates, and small pieces of text, in addition to commercial product codes. This Android-based system has similar functionality to a hardware barcode reader
A barcode reader is an optical scanner that can read printed barcodes, decode the data contained in the barcode to a computer. Like a flatbed scanner, it consists of a light source, a lens and a light sensor for translating optical impulses into ...
.
This application supports many different types of barcodes, including those used to identify products in commerce. The Barcode Scanner can automatically search the Web
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to identify a product with a barcode and use, for example, price-comparison information between vendors.
The application can decode several 2D barcodes including the widely used QR Code
A QR code (an initialism for quick response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) invented in 1994 by the Japanese company Denso Wave. A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that can contain information about t ...
and Data Matrix. QR codes are often embedded in websites; Barcode Scanner can open a browser at the encoded site, for example, facilitating the download of an application.
, this is one of the most downloaded Android applications as listed by Google Play
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, with over 600,000 ratings and over 126 million user installs.
Detection performance of ZXing was assessed on close to 2 million synthetic images for three types of barcodes: QR Code
A QR code (an initialism for quick response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) invented in 1994 by the Japanese company Denso Wave. A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that can contain information about t ...
, MaxiCode
MaxiCode is a public domain, machine-readable symbol system originally created and used by United Parcel Service. Suitable for tracking and managing the shipment of packages, it resembles an Aztec Code or QR code, but uses dots arranged in a h ...
, and EAN-13
The International Article Number (also known as European Article Number or EAN) is a standard describing a barcode symbology and numbering system used in global trade to identify a specific retail product type, in a specific packaging configurati ...
1D barcode. Problematic angles where decoding often fails were found, for example 45, 135, 225 and 315 degrees for QR Codes.Scheuermann, C., Werner, M., Kessel, M., Linnhoff-Popien, C., & Verclas, S. A. W. (2012). Evaluation of Barcode Decoding Performance using ZXING Library. In ''Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Smart Mobile Applications (SmartApps’12)''
See also
* Automated identification and data capture (AIDC) * Barcode printer *Code (disambiguation)
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Computing
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* European Article Numbering-Uniform Code Council
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* Global Trade Item Number
The Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) is an identifier for trade items, developed by the international organization GS1. Such identifiers are used to look up product information in a database (often by entering the number through a barcode scanne ...
* Identifier
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* Inventory control system
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* List of most downloaded Android applications
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* Object hyperlinking Object hyperlinking is a term that refers to extending the Internet to objects and locations in the real world. Object hyperlinking aims to extend the Internet to the physical world by attaching tags with URLs to tangible objects or locations. The ...
* Semacode
Semacode is a software company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is also this company's trade name for their machine-readable ISO/IEC 16022 Data Matrix barcodes, which are used to encode Internet URLs.
Semacodes are primarily aimed at b ...
* SMS barcode
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* SPARQCode
A SPARQCode is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) encoding standard that is based on the physical QR Code definition created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave.
Overview
The QR Code standard as defined by Denso-Wave in ISO/IEC 180 ...
References
External links
Development Site
* * {{F-Droid, com.google.zxing.client.android, Barcode Scanner Automatic identification and data capture Barcodes Free and open-source Android software