Scan blurry barcodes that other decoders give up on. barKoder's DeBlur mode reads EAN and UPC barcodes softened by motion, lens or focus blur, even when neighboring bars have fused together. You turn it on with one setting in the Android, iOS, Web and cross-platform SDKs.
Clean barcodes scan with almost any decoder. The difference shows on the frames your users actually capture: a shaky hand, a moving package, a camera that hasn't focused yet. Test DeBlur on those frames before you commit to an SDK.
Gather EAN and UPC barcodes that fail today:
Record successful reads, failures and time to result on the devices your users carry.
Start an SDK trialBlur softens the edges of bars and spaces and reduces the difference between neighboring elements. A person can still recognize the barcode, but the decoder only has the pixels. Motion blur is especially common in mobile scanning, because the phone and the barcode can both be moving. DeBlur handles the three common kinds of blur and the fused bars they produce.
DeBlur is part of the barKoder decoder and runs on the device. It uses image pre-processing to recover data from heavily blurred EAN and UPC barcodes.
DeBlur doesn't affect Code 128. For other kinds of damage, barKoder has dedicated algorithms.
In barKoder's published comparison of 55 blurred EAN and UPC samples, barKoder had the highest score of the SDKs tested, 89.09%. See the samples and method in our barcode scanner SDK comparison, then run the same test on your own barcodes.
DeBlur is one decoder setting on every platform. These examples are copied from the barKoder API reference.
Barkoder.setUpcEanDeblur(Barkoder.constants.UpcEanDeblur.Enable);
On Android and iOS the same option is the upcEanDeblur decoder config setting.
bool isEnabled =true;
await _barkoder.setUpcEanDeblurEnabled(isEnabled);
print('UPC/EAN deblur enabled set to:$isEnabled');
DeBlur in each API reference: Android, iOS, Web, Flutter, React Native, Capacitor, Cordova, .NET MAUI, NativeScript and Python.
UPC/EAN deblur is a documented decoder setting in the Android, iOS, Web, Flutter, React Native, Capacitor, Cordova, .NET MAUI, NativeScript and Python SDKs.
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Install the free barKoder demo app, or open the web demo, and scan your own barcodes before you integrate the SDK.
iPhone and iPad
Scan with your camera, or point it at the QR code to open the App Store.
Android phones and tablets
Scan with your camera, or point it at the QR code to open Google Play.
Any modern browser
Runs the Web SDK in your browser, on desktop or mobile, with nothing to install.
Test with known samples. Print or display the testing sheet and scan each 1D and 2D barcode with the demo app. The data sheet summarizes the SDK for your team.
Yes, with a decoder built for it. Blur from motion or missed focus is common on phones because the device and the barcode are often moving. With the barKoder SDK in your app and DeBlur mode turned on, ordinary Android and iOS devices read heavily blurred EAN and UPC barcodes, even when bars have fused together.
DeBlur is built for the EAN and UPC families of retail barcodes. It doesn't affect Code 128. For deformed 1D barcodes use Segment Decoding, and for damaged QR and Data Matrix codes MatrixSight®.
Set upcEanDeblur in the decoder config on Android and iOS, call Barkoder.setUpcEanDeblur(Barkoder.constants.UpcEanDeblur.Enable) in the Web SDK, or setUpcEanDeblurEnabled in Flutter, React Native, Capacitor, Cordova and NativeScript. .NET MAUI uses SetUpcEanDeblurEnabled and the Python library setUpcEanDeblur.
The one that reads your damaged samples on your devices. Collect barcodes that fail today, including blurred, smudged, curved and torn ones, and compare successful reads and time to result. barKoder covers blur with DeBlur, deformed 1D codes with Segment Decoding and damaged 2D codes with MatrixSight, and a free 30-day trial for 25 devices lets you test them in your own app.
Yes. Install the free barKoder demo app and open the 1D Retail template, where the UPC/EAN deblur option is available. To read a barcode from a photo or screenshot in your browser, use the free online barcode scanner.
Yes. barKoder's demo of blurred samples uses continuous scanning with a one-second delay, so the scanner keeps running and resumes after each successful read.
No. DeBlur works on EAN and UPC barcodes. QR codes are 2D codes, and barKoder reads damaged ones with MatrixSight, which handles QR codes with missing finder and alignment patterns and damaged data.
No. Decoding runs locally on the device. The SDK connects only for the license check, at least once every 30 days, and the barKoder SDK doesn't store personal information from scanned barcodes.
Test DeBlur on your hardest EAN and UPC samples with a free 30-day trial for 25 devices, or talk to an SDK expert about your project.
