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tjwoon
DataMatrix barcodes support
Hi,
This barcode scanner plugin is much better than the official phonegap-barcode-scanner plugin. It's much more optimized and works really better and quicker. Also no crashes were witnessed unlike the official one.
Unfortunately there's a big BUT about it. It supports a very limited set of barcode types. Is it planned to add support to other types like DataMatrix?
Thanks
ZBar is the native library that the csZBar cordova plugin uses. There has been some talk about adding DataMatrix to ZBar, but it doesn't seem there is much done about it yet.
https://sourceforge.net/p/zbar/feature-requests/31/
Because we need DataMatrix support as well, my company has gone back to the official phonegap-barcode-scanner plugin (which uses ZXing native library) on Android (which doesn't seem to suffer from the same stability issues of the iOS version, as far as I can tell), and on iOS we've begun to use this one, which instead of using open source libraries (ZBar or ZXing) it uses the iOS build in library AVFoundation: https://github.com/itraycer/XocializeScanner
I hope that someday someone will add DataMatrix support to ZBar.
Thanks for the reply!
Fortunately I've a found a version of official plugin with the fix for the memory leak issue it has.
Good luck for anyone that needs this solution!
@lentyaishe Thanks for pointing out the Telerik version, but I just tried the Telerik version my self, and unfortunately it still has the same error I was seeing in the official version, which is that on iOS after 80 or so scans, it stops recognizing all barcodes, until the app is restarted. This issue is reported here: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner/issues/370
Looks like I'm back to the https://github.com/itraycer/XocializeScanner for iOS. Thanks anyway!
Was very surprised to learn ZBar doesn't support data matrix. Back to the handheld scanners for now, but would love to see this feature implemented!
yep... lack of DATA_MATRIX is a bit disappointing. I guess i'll have to find another way around too
In case anyone who ends up here is looking for datamatrix library: https://pypi.org/project/pylibdmtx/ https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/pylibdmtx Maybe consider merging?
