A Distribution License is a great way to permanently add barcode reading technology to your application for a one time fee and in October we’re also offering a 20% discount at our on-line store with the coupon code OCTDIST20. Distribution Licenses also include 1 developer license and 12 months support and upgrade cover. The licenses
Version 9.3.1.16 of the Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows has been released with the following changes since version 9.3.1.11: The Digital Certificates for all DLL and EXE files have been updated. Support for ScanBarCodeFromByteArray implemented in the java jni for OSX and Linux builds. Improvement to the detection of higher resolution DataMatrix barcodes that
When the software scans for a Qr Code it first looks for finder target patterns. When one is located it scans further along the same scan line to see if it can locate another finder pattern. If it can then it estimates the locations of the third pattern and continues to try and read the
BardecodeFiler version 2.10.3.1 has been released containing a fix for issues on some systems where the application could crash when launched with an “ini” file to control processing. If you use BardecodeFile Desktop with “ini” files then this is a critical update.
Wikipedia defines a regular expression as “a sequence of characters that specifies a match pattern in text”. Another way is just to think of it as a way of describing text. For example, a UK number plate currently has the format of 2 letters, followed by 2 numbers, followed by 3 letters. As a regular
Version 9.3.1.10 of the SDK has been released with the following changes (as compared to version 9.3.1.7): Support for image extraction from PDF documents added for images using the ICC color space. Correction of possible data overrun in Reed Solomon error correction. The permitted range of ratio between the sides of a QrCode has been
There has been a small update to the SDK with the release of version 9.3.1.7 of the SoftekBarcodeDLL, libbardecode.so and libbardecode.dylib files. Other files remain at the previous version number. This version contains the following updates since 9.3.1.1: Improvement to Codabar recognition for higher resolution images where the barcode is close to the edge of
Drugs used in preparing intravenous (IV) bags currently use linear barcodes to store the National Drug Center number but, amazing as it seems, a clinician may need to type that number into a keyboard in order to determine the dosage, expiry date etc. Fresenius Kabi have recently announced that they will start putting GS1-Data matrix
It looks like the days of the humble 1D barcode (a series of black vertical bars) on packaging is numbered. An effort coordinated by GS1 US aims to replace the EAN/UPC barcodes we’re all familiar with on products with the more sophisticated QRCode. Where as a 1D barcode just stores a reference number for a
The release notes for version 9.2.3 of the SDK are as follows: Code 25 barcodes: A memory leak introduced in the Code 25 algorithm in version 9.1.5 has been corrected. DataMatrix barcodes: Improvement to reading dot datamatrix barcodes MaxBarCodesPerPage is now handled correctly when reading DataMatrix barcodes. For example, if an image contained 20 datamatrix