ZBar

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ZBar
Developer(s) ZBar developers
Stable release
0.23.93 [1] / 9 January 2024;13 months ago (9 January 2024)
Repository
Written in C
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Barcode reader
License GNU LGPL
Website git.linuxtv.org/zbar.git

ZBar is an open-source C barcode reading library with C++, Python, [2] Perl, and Ruby bindings. [3] [4] [5] It is also implemented on Linux and Microsoft Windows as a command-line application, [6] and as an iPhone application. [7]

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It was originally developed at SourceForge. [8] As the latest official release (version 0.10) was in 2009-10-27, a fork was created in March, 2017, converting it to use qt5 and libv4l, improving it to better support the Video4Linux API version 2. [9]

Features

References

  1. ↑ "Release 0.23.93".
  2. ↑ "Support for both Python 2 and 3 is provided via PyZbar package". Pypi.org. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 Brown, Jeff. "ZBar bar code reader". Zbar.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
  4. ↑ "ZBar bar code reader – Download version 0.20 and upper". Linustv.org.
  5. ↑ "ZBar – Download older versions". Zbar.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  6. ↑ Tyler, Joshua (January 2005). "ZBar Brings Barcode And QR Code Scanning To Your Desktop". Lifehacker.com.au. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
  7. ↑ Brown, Jeff. "ZBar bar code reader – iPhone". Zbar.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
  8. ↑ "ZBar bar code reader - Browse /zbar at SourceForge". Sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  9. ↑ "GitHub - mchehab/zbar". GitHub . 2024-01-09. Retrieved 2024-01-12.


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