[maemo-developers] Gsoc Idea Barcode Reader

[From: amit sethi]

Hi , thanks for the comments received here . Based on that i have submitted
a proposal . Please be kind and review and also please give suggestions as
to how it can be improved . I would also like to know. What could be my next
steps . And how I could start getting involved.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Simon Pickering
<S.G.Pickering at bath.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hi Steffen,
>
> > 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.).
>
> Thanks for the pointer. For maemo-barcode we currently use the main
> logic provided by the Batoo project
> (http://people.inf.ethz.ch/adelmanr/batoo/), but it looks like zebra
> decodes more types of 1D barcode so I'll have a look at it.
>
> > 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.
>
> I'll try to get it compiled in the week.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Simon
>
>
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