[maemo-developers] Gsoc Idea Barcode Reader

[From: Steffen Vogel]

Hi,
some month ago i tried to port http://zebra.sourceforge.net/
to the maemo platform.
The Zebra Barcode Reader can decode barcodes from a live video stream
(v4l) an static images (jpeg, bmp, etc.).
If im informed correctly, the n810's webcam has also a v4l interface
that could be used for the barcode decoding.
It should be quite easy to port it. Its coded in C and its sourcecode is
available.

steffen

Am Montag, den 23.03.2009, 00:21 +0530 schrieb amit sethi:
> 
> I am a student interested in applying for gsoc 2009. And i am
> especially excited by the idea of working on maemo.
> There is an idea on http://wiki.maemo.org/GSoC_2009/Project_ideas of
> an application in which an image of barcode is going to be used to
> check the pricing and other information of a product .
> Now as far as i see this project has following major steps:
> Using an image library and doing edge detection to get the barcode.
> Read the barcode according to UPC standards.
> Using Amazon API for search.
> Develop GUI for the tool.
> Thus we require a module for image library, barcoding reading and GUI
> Image library -PIL can be ported to maemo 2.0 read-
> http://www.teemuharju.net/2006/08/10/python-imaging-library-for-maemo-20/
> I don't think python has a tool for reading barcode but their is
> information about the standards at
> http://www.barcodeisland.com/symbolgy.phtml
> and thus a reader can be developed.
> Amazon can be searched using
> pyamazon-http://www.josephson.org/projects/pyamazon/
> And GUI using pyGTK
> As far as I know all these tools either work on maemo or can be made
> to work.
> Is there anything else i should take a look at before writing my
> application. I would like to use python for developing this particular
> application.
> I would like to know from the mailing-list if this particular line of
> thought would accomplish this work.
> 
> A-M-I-T S|S
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