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ZBAR BAR CODE READER ==================== ZBar Bar Code Reader is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, such as video streams, image files and raw intensity sensors. It supports EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 93, Code 39, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR Code. Included with the library are basic applications for decoding captured bar code images and using a video device (eg, webcam) as a bar code scanner. For application developers, language bindings are included for C, C++, Python and Perl as well as GUI widgets for Qt, GTK and PyGTK. Check the ZBar home page for the latest release, mailing lists, etc. http://zbar.sourceforge.net/ License information can be found in 'COPYING'. This Windows distribution also includes pre-compiled binaries of several supporting libraries, for which the copyright, license and source code locations are as follows: * The GNU libiconv character set conversion library Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This distribution includes GNU libiconv version 1.13.1, licensed under the LGPL version 2. The source code is available from http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv * The ImageMagick software imaging library Copyright 1999-2009 ImageMagick Studio LLC This distribution includes ImageMagick version 6.5.4-10, licensed under its own terms. The source code is available from http://imagemagick.org * The libxml2 XML C parser and toolkit Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Daniel Veillard. This distribution includes libxml2 version 2.7.3, provided under the MIT license. The source code is available from http://xmlsoft.org * IJG JPEG library Copyright (C) 1991-2009, Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding. This distribution includes jpeg version 7, licensed under its own terms. The source code is available from http://www.ijg.org * libtiff, a library for reading and writing TIFF Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc. This distribution includes libtiff version 3.9.1, which is provided "as-is". The source code is available from http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff * libpng, the official PNG reference library Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Glenn Randers-Pehrson This distribution includes libpng version 1.2.40, licensed under its own terms. The source code is available from http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html * The zlib general purpose compression library Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. This distribution includes zlib version 1.2.3, licensed under its own terms. The source code is available from http://zlib.net * The bzip2 compression library Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Julian Seward. This distribution includes bzip2 version 1.0.5, licensed under its own terms. The source code is available from http://bzip.org INSTALLING ========== ZBar for Windows is distributed with an installer, simply run the installer and follow the prompts to install the software. RUNNING ======= This version of the package includes *only command line programs*. (The graphical interface is scheduled for a future release) Invoke Start -> Programs -> ZBar Bar Code Reader -> Start ZBar Command Prompt to open a shell that has the zbarimg and zbarcam commands available (in the PATH). To start the webcam reader using the default camera, type: zbarcam To decode an image file, type eg: zbarimg -d examples\barcode.png For basic command instructions, type: zbarimg --help zbarcam --help Check the manual for more details. REPORTING BUGS ============== Bugs can be reported on the SourceForge project page http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/zbar/ Please include the ZBar version number and a detailed description of the problem. You'll probably have better luck if you're also familiar with the concepts from: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html