[dba-VB] Windows Phone 7.5 Mango is here...

Gustav Brock Gustav at cactus.dk
Mon Dec 19 06:15:03 CST 2011


Hi Shamil

No, I picked the Leadtools app because its description sounded trustworthy and it was free. As it proved to work clever and reliable, I haven't looked further.
You click a code, a voice tells you if the app can read it, and next you are offered to search for the code if a barcode was found, or - if a QR-code - it just looks up the URL.

Later research showed that they label themselves as "The World Leader in Imaging SDKs" which may not be false. I don't know, but the app works fine and, of course, uses their SDK for QR/barcode scanning.

The SDK for Windows Phone is described here:
http://www.leadtools.com/sdk/silverlight/windows-phone.htm 

Quite comprehensive and at a price ... cheapest package seems to be listed at USD 995 - well beyond my budget.

For your purpose, custom programming is probably needed. I've seen some open-source projects for reading QR-codes and I guess you can find one as well for barcodes, but I haven't looked for such.

/gustav


>>> Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> 19-12-2011 12:40 >>>
Hi Gustav --

Thank you for your reply.

? Did you try 

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/search?q=Barcode%20Reader 

it returns a set of available programs

Microsoft® Tag Reader Ratings: 564 Free	
Pic2shop Ratings: 98 Free	
QuickMark Ratings: 79 Free	
Butterkiss QR Scanner Ratings: 22 Free
PSA barcode scanner Ratings: 66 $1.99	
Barcode Reader Ratings: 12 Free	
Quick Reader Ratings: 78 Free	
NeoReader Ratings: 19Free
QRCode ReaderRatings: 12 $0.99	
Fun2D_QR_Code_ReaderRatings: 12 Free	
Barcode Scanner Ratings: 6 Free	
i-nigma Ratings: 6 Free
QuickBarcodeReader No ratings Free

Let's try to evaluate them although I must note I have not that much experience with working with barcodes and QR code.

I'd be interested to find and purchase a program which will reliably and quickly read barcodes (and QR codes) , will send them to a web service (which can be defined in program settings) and gets back (maybe in another program which will run on WP7 in parallel) some information about a product/services, which barcode was scanned/shot by camera

Thank you.

-- Shamil


19 декабря 2011, 13:55 от "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>:
> Hi Shamil
> 
> Yes, I found one (free) which reads common barcodes as EAN/UPC, PDF417, Datamatrix, as well as QR-codes:
> 
> Leadtools Barcode Demo
> 
> It works very well and is intended to demonstrate a SDK offered by Leadtools.
> 
> /gustav
> 
> >>> Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> 19-12-2011 09:13 >>>
> Hi Gustav --
> 
> Yes, "Lots of apps to browse for a potential waste of time".
> And do you know about a WP7 app for bar codes reading?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- Shamil





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