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by turminal 2007 days ago
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.

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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.
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.