Re: Re: Read/decode barcodes from an image

Yeah, I have played with JOCR/GOCR, but it seemed somewhat inaccurate. Does anyone have any examples of working with it in code so that I can figure out how to incorporate it into my solutions? Adam. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Bastien Koert <phpster@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Al <news@ridersite.org> wrote: > >> If anything can do it, it'll be ImageMagick >> >> 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? >>> >>> Adam. >>> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > your best bet would likely be to find an open source OCR package (like > http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ ) and shell out to it to do the > reading in. One > of our clients wrote a .NET app to just this that renames the file with the > ocr barcode after which we pick it up and handle the rest > > hth > > -- > > Bastien > > Cat, the other other white meat > -- Adam Randall AIM: blitz574