Python barcode decoding

Robocop bthayre at physics.ucsd.edu
Mon Oct 27 16:45:58 EDT 2008


On Oct 24, 1:24 pm, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 12:05 pm, Robocop <btha... at physics.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of any decent (open source or commercial) python
> >barcoderecognition tools or libraries.  I need to read barcodes from
> > pdfs or images, so it will involve some OCR algorithm.  I also only
> > need to read the code 93 symbology, so it doesn't have to be very
> > fancy.  The most important thing to me is that it outputs in some
> > python friendly way, or ideally that it is written in python.  Any
> > tips would be great!
>
> The closest thing I've heard of is the bar code stuff in reportlab.
> This post talks a little about it:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-February/024893.html
>
> And here's the official Reportlab site link:http://www.reportlab.org/downloads.html
>
> Mike

Thanks for the tip!!



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