Barcode Scanner (Plus)

Note: This utility is now free / open supply to commemorate the venture's tenth anniversary.

Note that this app can no longer be up to date on Google Play, and there shall be no further releases.

Barcode Scanner , from Sean Owen of ZXing Team, makes use of the camera on your gadget to learn barcodes of all types. After scanning barcodes you find on merchandise, for example, you can uncover costs and critiques for it. Or, when scanning newer two-dimensional barcodes, like QR Codes, you'll be able to entry contact info, bookmarks, web site links and extra inside.

Barcode Scanner is an enhanced model of the favored, free Barcode Scanner application, which is a product of the ZXing open-source barcode scanning library from Google. Barcode Scanner is predicated on the identical code, and has been developed by one of the two major authors of the unique Barcode Scanner, Sean Owen.

Barcode Scanner contains all of Barcode Scanner's performance, and is meant as a drop-in replacement for Barcode Scanner. It adds several enhancements:

Better barcode scanning

- New image processing algorithm for detection of 1D barcode codecs, together with UPC and EAN product codes

- Uses both cores of dual-core processors

- Optionally, scan for Aztec and PDF417 barcodes (note: PDF417 assist is 'alpha' quality)

- Rewritten to take benefit of Java 6, Android 2.2 APIs, and newest Android SDK features

Refined user interface

- Now scan in tall portrait orientation, in addition to landscape orientation

- More intuitive pattern-based scanning guide

- Streamlined and improved person interface elements

- Android 4 and pill device support

- Expanded Help screens

New features

- Decode a barcode from a picture file

- Option to scan light-on-dark barcodes

- Activate device's LED mild to scan in low light

- Basic help for scanning NFC tags

- Amazon product information

Also out there in simple model, with out performance that requires particular permission. See Barcode Scanner Simple.

Purchasing this software additionally supports improvement of the ZXing open-source barcode scanning library.

Barcode Scanner doesn't collect, store or transmit details about its customers, nor usage of the applying. The software accesses personal information such as contacts and bookmarks only in order to implement application performance, corresponding to sharing contacts and bookmarks by QR Codes on screen.

(aka Barcode Scanner Plus)