ByteScout Barcode Suite – C# – Acquire barcode from scanner and decode with barcode reader sdk

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How to acquire barcode from scanner and decode with barcode reader sdk in C# with ByteScout Barcode Suite

Step-by-step tutorial on how to acquire barcode from scanner and decode with barcode reader sdk in C#

Acquire barcode from scanner and decode with barcode reader sdk is simple to apply in C# if you use these source codes below. ByteScout Barcode Suite is the bundle that privides 3 SDK products to generate barcodes (Barcode SDK), read barcodes (Barcode Reaer SDK) and read and write spreadsheets (Spreadsheet SDK). It can be applied to acquire barcode from scanner and decode with barcode reader sdk using C#.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do acquire barcode from scanner and decode with barcode reader sdk in C# with the help of ByteScout Barcode Suite. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the C# code. Use of ByteScout Barcode Suite in C# is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Bytescout.BarCodeReader;

// This example demonstrates camera image acquiring using Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) interface.
// BarCode Reader SDK has builtin WIAImageScanner class for WIA.
// If you experienced issues with this example, please try another example located in /Visual Basic.NET/Read From Live Video Cam/ 


namespace BarcodeFromWebCam
{
	static class Program
	{
		static void Main()
		{
            // Use WIAImageScanner image acquisition module
            WIAImageScanner wiaScanner = new WIAImageScanner();

            wiaScanner.OutputFileNameTemplate = "BarCodeReader-scanned";
            wiaScanner.OutputImageFormat = WiaImageFormatType.PNG;
            wiaScanner.ImageQuality = WiaImageBias.MaximizeQuality;
            wiaScanner.ImageIntent = WiaImageIntent.UnspecifiedIntent;
            wiaScanner.ShowDeviceSelectionDialog = true;

            try
            {
                // Run Acquire and exit if canceled or zero images
                if (!wiaScanner.Acquire())
                    return;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                string message = e.Message;
                if (e.InnerException != null)
                    message = message + "\r\n\r\n" + e.InnerException.Message;
                MessageBox.Show("Failed acquiring images:\r\n\r\n" + message);
                return;
            }

            // Create barcode reader
            Reader reader = new Reader();
            reader.RegistrationName = "demo";
			reader.RegistrationKey = "demo";

            // Enable decoding of ALL known barcode types.
            reader.BarcodeTypesToFind.All = true;
            // To speed up the processing and avoid false positives select specific barcodes type, 
            // e.g. barcodeReader.BarcodeTypesToFind.PDF417 = True

            /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------
            NOTE: We can read barcodes from specific page to increase performance .
            For sample please refer to "Decoding barcodes from PDF by pages" program.
            ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */
	        FoundBarcode[] barcodes = reader.ReadFrom(wiaScanner.OutputFiles[0]);

            if (barcodes.Length > 0)
            {
                StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
                foreach (FoundBarcode barcode in barcodes)
                    builder.AppendLine(String.Format("Found barcode with type '{0}' and value '{1}'", barcode.Type, barcode.Value));
                MessageBox.Show(builder.ToString());
            }
            else
            {
                MessageBox.Show(wiaScanner.OutputFiles[0] + "\r\n\r\nCould not find any barcode.");
            }

            // cleanup
            reader.Dispose();
 		}
	}
}