barcode scanning

[ludo_akreed]

Hi All,

I'm working for a printing companie and we're trying to find a way to take a picture of each pallets going out, and to scan the barcode on it to give the image the name of the number written on the pallet tag.

We are looking for a cheap and possibly open sources system.

I tried with zoneminder in combination with Zbar with no success.

Does anyone already tried this kind of stuff?


Small precisions:

- Barcode are code39 and printed on an A4 sheet.
- zoneminder 1.28.107 running on a Ubuntu 14.04.1 amd64 Under VMware esx4 (4cpu and 2Gb RAM)
- cameras: TrendNet TV-IP310PI

Thank you by advance,

[PacoLM]

I recommend you to search a custom solution, just spent two minutes in Google:

http://blog.ayoungprogrammer.com/2013/0 ... codes.html

Maybe is worth to do a custom and lighter app that could be run in a Beaglebone Black or Raspberry Pi.

Regards,

PacoLM

[ludo_akreed]

Thank you for your answer PacoLM, I'll have a look on it and post the results.

Thank you again,

[patpend]

There was some activity a while back about integrating OpenCV into ZM which would have paved the way for all sorts of neat tricks such as analytics (people counting, object detection, loitering detection), facial recognition, license plate scanning and probably barcode scanning too, but unfortunately it never gained traction. I am hoping someone will pick up the torch again, I would but this is way above my pay grade.