[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.