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Integrate the Barkoder Barcode Reader Python apps

Discover barKoder barcode lybrary's continous scanning mode, an industry-leading solution that enables real-time, multi-barcode data capture.

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Python:
Powerful and Customizable Barcode and MRZ Scanning

The barKoder Python SDK is a high-performance solution for developers looking to integrate advanced barcode and MRZ scanning into their Python-based applications, scripts, or automation pipelines.

Engineered for flexibility and simplicity, the SDK is compatible with popular Python frameworks and tools, making it ideal for a wide range of environments. It supports a full spectrum of barcode formats—such as QR codes, 1D, and 2D barcodes—alongside machine-readable zones (MRZ) OCR scanning for passports and identity documents, ensuring broad applicability across industries like retail, logistics, travel, and identity verification.

Leveraging state-of-the-art image processing algorithms, the SDK guarantees fast and accurate scanning even in challenging conditions, including blurred, deformed, or partially damaged barcodes. Developers can easily customize the scanning pipeline and configure workflows to meet specific application requirements.

With comprehensive documentation, clear API references, and practical code examples, integrating the barKoder Python SDK into your projects is seamless. Whether you're building a logistics tracking system, implementing contactless check-ins, or enhancing security processes, barKoder empowers you to create reliable, feature-rich solutions that users can trust.

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Supported Python Versions: Python 3.11 or newer (contact us for support on older versions).
Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 or newer (Linux).
Architecture: x86-64
Interface: A clean, Pythonic API with minimal boilerplate for quick integration.
Decoding Engine: Powered by a best-in-class native decoding engine for exceptional performance and accuracy.
Offline Capability: Works completely offline, ensuring data privacy and reliability.
Computer Vision Integration: Seamlessly integrates with OpenCV, NumPy, and other popular computer vision stacks.
Lightweight – ideal for both local and embedded use

Python Documentation Python SDK Requirements & Installation Python SDK API Reference Python SDK Implementation Samples Get the barKoder Pytnon SDK

Features

Barcode Scanner SDK Features

Damaged Barcodes

At the core of our cutting-edge decoding solution lies MatrixSight®, an algorithm that some among us dare to deem groundbreaking. Exclusively featured in our barKoder software, MatrixSight is meticulously designed to redefine the very standards of mobile barcode recognition. This exceptional algorithm transcends the constraints of conventional decoding, establishing a new benchmark for reliability, accuracy, and versatility.

Deformed Barcodes

Segment Decoding® transcends beyond anything other barcode scanners can achieve, and that is successful recognition of 1D barcodes that have been deformed, crumpled, wrinkled and otherwise altered to the degree where a straight line can't pass through all its bars, a limitation that other decoders can't alleviate. Achieved through barkoder's advanced barcode location detection algorithms, Segment Decoding® technique is unmatched in its performance levels and pattern matching capabilities, amortizing even the highest degree of barcode damages, including printing errors, label damage, scanner angles, low print quality, as well as various other levels of physical damage or environmental conditions.

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Blurry Barcodes

Accurately and reliably scan EAN & UPC barcodes regardless of the degree and the type of blur that affects them, be that motion, lens or focus blur.

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Multiple Barcodes

Want to scan multiple barcodes regardless of type and density continuously? Look no further than barKoder's Batch MultiScan feature, whose result caching and location reconstruction techniques provide excellent user-experience and results.

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VIN Scanner

When you combine MatrixSight® & Segment Decoding®, the result is breathtaking and leads to the most advanced VIN barcode scanner on the market, able to capture the data even within the most stubborn & difficult to read VIN-powered Code 39, Code 128, Data Matrix & QR Codes.

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MRZ Scanner

The fastest & most accurate Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) scanning software solution for capturing data from any MRZ- empowered biometric document, ensuring streamlined, reliable identity verification. With its easy integration and seamless setup, it represents an almost turnkey solution for any mobile platform without extensive configuration.

PDF417 Scanner

Applying what we learned from MatrixSight® to our PDF417 barcode recognition engine was, for a lack of a better word, unparalleled. PDF417 barcodes, usually applied to identification documents such as driver's licenses, ID cards, vehicle registration discs and similar use-cases, due to wearing and extensive use naturally fade and lose their basic elements such as its start and stop patterns. But PDF417-LineSight® doesn't stop here and goes far beyond - a PDF417 barcode can now also miss its start and stop row indications and even entire data columns and it still wouldn't be beyond the reach of barKoder, which will capture the entirety of its data regardless.

DPM Scanner

barKoder SDK's unique algorithms and features provided all the necessary conditions for creating a special mode for decoding even the most challenging Data Matrix barcodes, i.e. those engraved utilizing the Direct Part Marking (DPM) methods, something that previously was only possible with extremely expensive and specialized hardware scanners. Now all you need to achieve such barcode reading levels is your own personal smart device!

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DotCode Scanner

barKoder'’s barcode scanning API features the best DotCode reading algorithm by a significant margin when compared to any competitor product in the software-based barcode reading market, be that closed or open-source, rivaling even the best hardware solutions

Use Cases

Industry and Application Examples

Desktop Apps: Inventory tools, ID checkers, POS terminals
AI Pipelines: Pre-processing images for OCR/barcode training
Automation Scripts: Batch document scanning, label validation
Logistics & Operations: Parcel tracking, warehouse tools, labeling systems

1D & 2D Barcode Formats Support

Linear (1D) Barcodes

Codabar, Code 11, Code 25 (Standard/Industrial 2 of 5), Code 39 (including Code 39 extended), Code 93, Code 128, COOP 2 of 5, Datalogic 2 of 5, GS1 Databar, GS1 Composite, EAN-8, EAN-13, IATA 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, Italian Pharmacode (Code 32), ITF-14, Matrix 2 of 5, MSI Plessey, Postal Barcodes, Telepen, UPC-A, UPC-E, UPC-E1

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2D Barcodes

Aztec Code, Aztec Compact, Data Matrix, DotCode, MaxiCode, PDF417, Micro PDF417, QR Code, Micro QR Code

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Testing Sheet

Test directly on our ready-made sheet.

Optimizing your experience with our app is effortless using our comprehensive testing sheet encompassing a variety of 1D and 2D barcode types. Simply print or display the sheet on your device, and proceed to scan each barcode using our demo app.

This efficient testing method ensures that our app seamlessly recognizes and processes diverse barcode formats, assuring you of its reliability and versatility across different code types.

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