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As we're maintaining ZBar now mainly at github, update its location along some places. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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zbar -- read barcodes from images or video
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ZBar Bar Code Reader is an open source software suite for reading bar
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codes from various sources, such as video streams, image files and raw
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intensity sensors. It supports EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128,
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Code 93, Code 39, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR Code. These are
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the Python bindings for the library.
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Check the ZBar project home page for the latest release, mailing
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lists, etc.
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* https://github.com/mchehab/zbar
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Installation
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------------
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To install this module type the following::
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python setup.py install
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Dependencies
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------------
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This module requires the ZBar Bar Code Reader, which may be obtained
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from:
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* https://github.com/mchehab/zbar
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Windows users please note: the module *will NOT load* unless the ZBar
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library DLL (currently libzbar-0.dll) is available in your Windows system
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PATH!
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Examples
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--------
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To scan an image, wrap the raw image data in a ``zbar.Image`` and feed
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it to a ``zbar.ImageScanner``::
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import zbar
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scanner = zbar.ImageScanner()
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image = zbar.Image(width, height, 'Y800', raw_data)
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scanner.scan(image)
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for symbol in image:
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print 'decoded', symbol.type, 'symbol', '"%s"' % symbol.data
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Complete, runnable examples may be found in the source distribution,
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under the ``examples/`` directory. A couple of HOWTOs_ that cover
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programming with the library may be found on the project wiki.
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.. _HOWTOs: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/zbar/index.php?title=Category:HOWTOs
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Copyright and License
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---------------------
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Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1.
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt
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Copyright 2008-2010 (c) Jeff Brown <spadix@users.sourceforge.net>
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