ZBar
Clone of the mercurial repository http://zbar.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/zbar/zbar (by ZBar)
ZXing
ZXing ("Zebra Crossing") barcode scanning library for Java, Android (by zxing)
| ZBar | ZXing | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 42 | |
| 2,465 | 32,265 | |
| 0.4% | 0.4% | |
| 0.0 | 8.6 | |
| about 2 months ago | 4 days ago | |
| C | Java | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ZBar
Posts with mentions or reviews of ZBar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-27.
- What route should I go for moving long links you find on the phone to a PC?
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How to scan QR Barcode with Windows 10 Webcam on laptop - Without using an emulator?
ZBar - ZBar is a widely used open-source software that supports scanning QR codes with a webcam on Windows 10. https://zbar.sourceforge.net/
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Is there an open source QR code reader for Windows?
I'm pretty sure ZBar is supported on windows. It includes the zbarcam tool, which can scan from camera.
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How to decode a QR-code image in (preferably pure) Python?
ZBar (website here) claims to be "an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, such as image files." So I tried installing it on Mac OSX running sudo pip install zbar. This fails with error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1. I tried to suggestions in the answers to this SO question, but I can't seem to solve it. So I decided to move on again:
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Diners Beware: That Meal May Cost You Your Privacy and Security
All zbar-derived programs would work. For phones, this is one of the few that showed up quickly on F-Droid.
- Best way to store backup 2FA QR codes and recovery codes?
ZXing
Posts with mentions or reviews of ZXing.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.
- What's the best way to generate a QR code?
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How to build an Ionic Barcode Scanner with Capacitor
The biggest difference between the two plugins is the SDK used to recognise the barcodes. The Capacitor Community Barcode Scanner plugin currently uses the ZXing decoder and the Capacitor ML Kit Barcode Scanning plugin uses the ML Kit from Google.
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Does anyone have scanning a QR code from a webcam to a text field in an Access form working and be willing to share the source? Thanks
This is using Excel, but it is still VBA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIFjw8z__dI they're utilizing a third-party library called ZXing which is available on GitHub https://github.com/zxing/zxing
- The Basics of how QR codes work
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Cross-Platform(Android, IOS, Desktop)Barcode scanner package that allows for continuous barcode scanning
I'm sure it works, but thezxing github project appears in maintenance mode, so I'm not sure i should use it in a new project
- Tool Request: Investigate QR Codes in emails
- Guest WiFi using a QR code
- Fdrio · Issue #1539 · zxing/zxing · GitHub
- Zebra Crossing
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How to decode a QR-code image in (preferably pure) Python?
PyXing (website here) is supposedly a Python port of the popular Java ZXing library, but the initial and only commit is 6 years old and the project has no readme or documentation whatsoever.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ZBar and ZXing you can also consider the following projects:
C++ Format - A modern formatting library
mlkit - A collection of sample apps to demonstrate how to use Google's ML Kit APIs on Android and iOS
FastFormat - The fastest, most robust C++ formatting library
android-ocr
stb - stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
Tess4J - Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API
sigslot - C++11 signal/slot implementation
Code Scanner - Code scanner library for Android, based on ZXing
pdqsort - Pattern-defeating quicksort.
Thumbnailator - Thumbnailator - a thumbnail generation library for Java