ByteScout Barcode Suite – VBScript – Search barcodes in documents and write results to file with barcode reader sdk

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How to search barcodes in documents and write results to file with barcode reader sdk in VBScript using ByteScout Barcode Suite

Learn to search barcodes in documents and write results to file with barcode reader sdk in VBScript

The sample shows instructions and algorithm of how to search barcodes in documents and write results to file with barcode reader sdk and how to make it run in your VBScript application. 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) and you can use it to search barcodes in documents and write results to file with barcode reader sdk with VBScript.

These VBScript code samples for VBScript guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout Barcode Suite. This VBScript sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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TestBarcodeReadingFromPDF.vbs

      ' Create BarCodeReader object
Set bc = CreateObject("Bytescout.BarCodeReader.Reader")

' Limit barcode search to PDF417 barcodes only
bc.BarcodeTypesToFind.PDF417 = True

' Create File System object
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' Get folder object (current folder)
Set objFolder = FSO.GetFolder(".")

' Get file list
Set files = objFolder.Files

' Create output file
Set TS = FSO.CreateTextFile("output.txt")

' Run barcode search for PDF and TIFF files
For Each file in files

	ext = UCase(FSO.GetExtensionName(file))	
	If ext = "PDF" Or ext = "TIF" Then
		bc.ReadFromFile file.Name
		For i = 0 To bc.FoundCount - 1
			' Write found barcode information to output file
			TS.Write("File: """ & file.Name & """ Page " & CStr(bc.GetFoundBarcodePage(i)) & ": Barcode: " & bc.GetFoundBarcodeValue(i)) & vbCRLF
		Next
    End If 
    
Next

TS.Close

Set bc = Nothing
Set TS = Nothing
Set FSO = Nothing

MsgBox "Done! See output.txt with found results"