Re: Read/decode barcodes from an image
| From: | Adam Randall | Date: | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:50:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Read/decode barcodes from an image | ||
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Are you referring to a project, class, or just generally curious about
what I'm asking? Barcode reader can be many things, including a
scanning wand (not applicable to what I am looking for).
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:56 -0800, Adam Randall wrote:
>> I'm amazed that this either doesn't exist, or is hard to find. I
>> basically am looking for a way to read in an image into PHP, or shell
>> out to something on the Linux side, and determine, and see if it has a
>> barcode in it or not. If it does, I need to decode the barcode so that
>> I can identify the page as a separator page or not.
>>
>> Basically, what I'm doing is reading in a PDF or TIF which will
>> contain multiple pages (probably a lot of pages) and look for a page
>> containing a barcode. The barcode will identify the page as a
>> separator page which will be used to split the multipage document into
>> smaller single or multipage documents.
>>
>> Has anyone ever heard of anything that might help me in this process?
>
> Barcode reader?
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
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