How to do barcode scanning

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Hey guys,
recently i’ve been trying to get more information about barcode reading and I found some softwares that can work for me. I am not an expert (yet :) ) on this field so if you could help me, I’d be very grateful. I found two SDKs, both named as Barcode Scanner SDK, one from Dynamsoft (I found this here, on CodeProject) and one from Bytescout. And there is another one, that looks the most promising for the first glimpse, Ozeki Camera SDK (also found on CodeProject).
Do you guys happen to have any experience with any of these sdks?
Any help would be appreciated.

Posted 11-Feb-15 2:25am

Jsnaijer

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ZurdoDev 11-Feb-15 8:29am

Actually, many bar code scanners have no SDK because all they do is scan the barcode and dump the number into whatever control has focus.

Meaning that you click in any textbox anywhere on your system and then scan the barcode and it automatically puts the barcode into the textbox. No programming at all required.

Xiao Ling 12-Feb-15 1:18am

Why don't you try all of them, and make a comparison? I suggest you can take a little bit of time to evaluate these products.

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Xiao Ling · Answer 1 · 2015-02-11T19:25:00

Here is a case study[^] about how Avision adopts Dynamsoft's barcode SDK to bundle with document scanners. And you can see that the use of Dynamsoft barcode reader SDK is pretty simple:

private void btnReadBarcode_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    this.txtBarcode.Text = "";
    Result[] aryResult = this.dynamicDotNetTwain1.ReadBarcode(this.dynamicDotNetTwain1.CurrentImageIndexInBuffer, BarcodeFormat.All);
    StringBuilder strText = new StringBuilder();
    strText.AppendFormat(aryResult.Length + " total barcode" + (aryResult.Length == 1 ? "" : "s") + " found.\r\n");
    for (int i = 0; i < aryResult.Length; i++)
    {
        Result objResult = aryResult[i];
        strText.AppendFormat("      Result " + (i + 1) + "\r\n");
        strText.AppendFormat("      BarcodeFormat: " + objResult.BarcodeFormat.ToString() + "\r\n");
        strText.AppendFormat("      Text read: " + objResult.Text + "\r\n");
 
    }
    this.txtBarcode.Text = strText.ToString();
}