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by hardwaresofton 4231 days ago
At present there is only one bar code scanner on firefoxos marketplace, with this library it looks like where will be better ones.

Maybe consider making a quick FFOS App?
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SunboX 4231 days ago
The problem of Firefox OS is the fix focus camera of over 1 meter and the max 5 mega pixel resolution. You can't get sharp barcode images. They are either blurry while to near, or too small while in focus.

I've build a Firefox OS app [1] that is theoretically enabled to scan barcodes, but it won't work with most devices out there.

[1] https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/qr-reader

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serratus 4230 days ago
It's too bad that most of the problems when scanning barcodes are related to the missing auto-focus in browsers. I really hope this gets sorted out in the near feature.

I just tried your app and reading QR codes works really well. You are using an emscripten version of ZBar, right?

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serratus 4231 days ago
Yeah, I already tried the webpage on my Flame and it worked out of the box. This might be a great app for the FF-OS store indeed.
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hardwaresofton 4227 days ago
Hey there fellow flame user! I also have one, and yeah, it would make a great addition!

at the very least, it can be a web-webapp (firefoxOS let's you declare app manifests for online sites)

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