[teolemon]

We need a modern opensource barcode reader. The best thing (zxing) is in maintenance mode, and the newer barcode scanners with niceties like neural scan, 90% scan, bortched barcode scan are all closed source.

[brysonreece]

I agree, I once took a shot at porting ZXing to the Microsoft Hololens. I was amazed that there aren't very many open source barcode interpreters available right now.

[xipho]

This is so true. It blows my mind that nothing exist beyond zxing. Barcodes are everywhere, and quick access to them is the gate-way to a million cool apps, etc.

[mark-r]

I tried to write my own scanner in Python, but couldn't get it reliable enough to release.

Is there anything wrong with maintenance mode if it works?

[turminal]

In my experience it doesn't really work that well.

I was trying to make a barcode scanner out of a raspberry pi with a camera module during a hackathon once. What an absolute nightmare.

[mark-r]

My code probably would have worked with good image quality, but I wanted something more robust that would work with a cheap webcam. I imagine the pi camera module is about the same.

[turminal]

Yeah, image quality was what made us abandon the idea but before that I found it really troublesome to setup and use zxing to do anything at all.

[ficklepickle]

OpenCueCat?

[xkeysc0re]

I still have mine! It works as a regular bar code reader for helping organize my library

[tomcam]

We’re too young to remember that awesome issue of Wired