Free webcam based barcode-scanner component.
So I finally decided to release my barcode-scanner component. I know a lot of you people have been waiting for this!
I have been holding this off, as there is a lot of cool potential in the technology which I really wanted to explore. So fare it has always looked as I would have the time to work on this “in a few months�. I did however never get the time and I also realized that I never will with my plans for the future.
Therefore I have decided to give it away for free, so enjoy.
Ohh and if you build a social media indexing service where people can scan and categorize there media, give it points and get recommendations based on what other with same taste have voted… Send me a few cases of Cola, or Beer when you sell it to google for billions ;)
The scanner should be very easy to use, just read the readme.txt, and see the example
Download the component here:
http://barcodepedia.com/download
on October 30th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Thanks very much Chris!! This is great news! Can’t wait to try this out.
on December 30th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Nice one. But doesnt seem to work properly. It would be great, if you could share the source-code. Thanks :).
on January 17th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
doesn’t work for me either
on February 13th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Try adjusting your webcam’s zoom, sadly the component is not as forgiving as competitors products.
on April 8th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
There used to be a trading card game that used barcodes to generate powerups etc… just a thought…
on February 7th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
it still dose not work for me but in you go to my site you can create your owne id barcode
www.wootsinternational.com
on February 25th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
You can get Libra from here: http://www.getlibra.com/
Completely free webcam barcode scanner! ;-)
This is a great freeware.
on November 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
does not work dear
on January 23rd, 2009 at 1:52 am
hi, Chris, nice program, thanks but I find there is a problem in some browsers if I run embedded file from barcodepedia.com:
On one machine it’s fine, but the other it locks up. I guess it has to be some cross site scripting problem (and tougher settings at the one machine).
So I thought I shold try to run it from my own site, as you share the source code, it should be peanuts, I thought. But first: How do I edit and compile the Barcode Scanner.swc file? What program to use?
And more: I am a complete noob in Flash, but how hard can it be, open, compile and voila? But then; why should that be neccessary, wouldn’t you just share the compiled version as well? So first: what program to use for editing? And second: what parameters do I have to set?