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Jarek Czekalski
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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/zbarw/
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
