[maemo-developers] Gsoc Idea Barcode Reader

[From: Simon Pickering]

>> Producing a useful interface to let people obtain a decoded
>> string/etc. from whatever sort of barcode is a worthy goal (and having
>> the code select from a range of decoders preferably), as is improving
>> the speed of some of the 2D decoders, as is producing web scraping
>> functions that could be used to obtain info about a decoded barcode.
>
> This came up in discussion recently on irc.
>
> Can I suggest you look at providing a dbus interface.
>
> This should give you hooks into a few areas and some well defined but well
> linked breakpoints for the project. It also lets you link to   
> non-python solutions.

Absolutely. C/C++ is a better choice for the decoder parts anyway as  
they have to be fast and memory efficient. The C/C++ library which  
performs the barcode decoding functionality would then be wrapped to  
allow its use in Python, etc.

I've added a page on the wiki with some thoughts about areas that  
could be attacked by GSoC (and in general for that matter). I've not  
added any links to examples (e.g. Delicious, Andoid Scan) to  
illustrate my thoughts yet.

Please feel free to add ideas/comments (and please say who you are  
when you do so).

Thanks,


Simon