ByteScout Barcode Reader SDK – VB.NET – Decode Macro PDF417

Home
/
Articles
/
ByteScout Barcode Reader SDK – VB.NET – Decode Macro PDF417

printable version:
ByteScout-BarCode-Reader-SDK-VB-NET-Decode-Macro-PDF417.pdf

How to decode macro pdf417 in VB.NET with ByteScout BarCode Reader SDK

The tutorial shows how to decode macro pdf417 in VB.NET

Learn how to decode macro pdf417 in VB.NET with this source code sample. ByteScout BarCode Reader SDK is the barcode decoder with support for code 39, code 128, QR Code, Datamatrix, GS1, PDF417 and all other popular barcodes. Can read barcodes from images, pdf, tiff documents and live web camera. Supports noisy and damaged documents, can split and merge pdf and tiff documents based on barcodes. Can export barcode decoder results to XML, JSON, CSV and into custom data structures. It can be used to decode macro pdf417 using VB.NET.

This code snippet below for ByteScout BarCode Reader SDK works best when you need to quickly decode macro pdf417 in your VB.NET application. Just copy and paste the code into your VB.NET application’s code and follow the instruction. You can use these VB.NET sample examples in one or many applications.

Trial version of ByteScout BarCode Reader SDK can be downloaded for free from our website. It also includes source code samples for VB.NET and other programming languages.

On-demand (REST Web API) version:
Web API (on-demand version)

On-premise offline SDK for Windows:
60 Day Free Trial (on-premise)

Module1.vb

      Imports System.IO
Imports Bytescout.BarCodeReader

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

        Const imageFile As String = "MacroPDF417.png"

        Console.WriteLine("Reading barcode(s) from image {0}", Path.GetFullPath(imageFile))

        Dim reader As New Reader()
        reader.RegistrationName = "demo"
		reader.RegistrationKey = "demo"

        ' Set barcode type to find
        reader.BarcodeTypesToFind.PDF417 = True ' "Macro PDF417" barcode type is subset of "PDF417"

        ' -----------------------------------------------------------------------
        ' NOTE: We can read barcodes from specific page to increase performance .
        ' For sample please refer to "Decoding barcodes from PDF by pages" program.
        ' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 

        ' Read barcodes
        Dim barcodes As FoundBarcode() = reader.ReadFrom(imageFile)

        For Each barcode As FoundBarcode In barcodes
            Console.WriteLine("Found barcode with type '{0}' and value '{1}'", barcode.Type, barcode.Value)
        Next

        ' Cleanup
        reader.Dispose()

        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit..")
        Console.ReadKey()

    End Sub

End Module