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= barcodescanner

== Description

Retrieve barcode value from barcode image file

== New in this version

  • Build cleanly on OSX/Macports
  • Returns a key-value hash rather than concatenated output

== Installation

=== Archive Installation

Checkout code from the repository first, and then:

rake install
rake test

== Features/Problems

=== Require Libraries

ImageMagick, zbar(http://zbar.sourceforge.net/)

==== install zbar

if you install zbar to non-x machine,

./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-video --without-gtk --without-qt

and make, make install.

Omit --prefix=/opt/local if you're building on non-OSX/Macports

== Synopsis

require 'rubygems'
require 'barcodescanner'

# take from test

expected = [{:type=>"EAN-13", :data=>"1920222007009"}, {:type=>"ISBN-10", :data=>"4087204251"}] result = BarcodeScanner.process_image_file("test.png") assert_equal(expected, result)

=== "cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory "

echo "/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
/sbin/ldconfig

== Copyright

Author:: koyachi [email protected] Modified by:: Vishnu Gopal [email protected] Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2008 koyachi License::