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hypest
29th February 2008, 02:45 PM
Hello xda-developers

I am developing an application that utilizes the phone's camera to shoot and recognize 1D (and 2D) barcodes, like the ones found on virtually every consumer's product. The app is basically developed on my kaiser, that's why the main discussion thread is on the kaiser's forum, here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=368798) (to moderators: please let me know if this cross-threading is inappropriate... or maybe close one of two so the discussion won't fork).

No kaiser specific API's are used, so the app should run on any device with .NET v2.0. Keep in mind though that, without a focus-capable phone, most barcodes will probably fail to be recognized!

have fun,
hypest

shandar
29th February 2008, 04:45 PM
Hello xda-developers

I am developing an application that utilizes the phone's camera to shoot and recognize 1D (and 2D) barcodes, like the ones found on virtually every consumer's product. The app is basically developed on my kaiser, that's why the main discussion thread is on the kaiser's forum, here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=368798) (to moderators: please let me know if this cross-threading is inappropriate...).

No kaiser specific API's are used, so the app should run on any device with .NET v2.0. Keep in mind though that, without a focus-capable phone, most barcodes will probably fail to be recognized!

have fun,
hypest

Is it possible to make it look up the barcode on Amazon to find the best price etc? That would be well handy when shopping!
Something like Delicious Library (http://www.delicious-monster.com/) for Macs would be perfect on Windows Mobile :)

hypest
29th February 2008, 05:10 PM
Is it possible to make it look up the barcode on Amazon to find the best price etc? That would be well handy when shopping!
Something like Delicious Library (http://www.delicious-monster.com/) for Macs would be perfect on Windows Mobile :)

Good idea, but I have no experience with Amazon... does Amazon include the product's barcode on its page?

hypest

sgd2z
29th May 2009, 03:17 PM
If someone gives me barcode reader code, I'll make the Amazon search part of it and release the app for free :)

Sean D.
29th May 2009, 06:21 PM
If someone gives me barcode reader code, I'll make the Amazon search part of it and release the app for free :)

Doesn't BarcodeZilla already do that?

sgd2z
1st June 2009, 04:29 PM
Hmm, nice. I want the barcode reader code for another project I'm working on and was only willing to do the Amazon thing if someone gave me the code and asked for it :)

I found some code for .NET that can read barcodes but so far haven't got it to work on .NET CF