ByteScout Premium Suite – ASP.NET MVC C# – Read from live camera with barcode reader sdk

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How to read from live camera with barcode reader sdk in ASP.NET MVC C# with ByteScout Premium Suite

How to write a robust code in ASP.NET MVC C# to read from live camera with barcode reader sdk with this step-by-step tutorial

Read from live camera with barcode reader sdk is simple to apply in ASP.NET MVC C# if you use these source codes below. ByteScout Premium Suite is the set that includes 12 SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can be applied to read from live camera with barcode reader sdk using ASP.NET MVC C#.

The following code snippet for ByteScout Premium Suite works best when you need to quickly read from live camera with barcode reader sdk in your ASP.NET MVC C# application. This ASP.NET MVC C# 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! This basic programming language sample code for ASP.NET MVC C# will do the whole work for you to read from live camera with barcode reader sdk.

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!!!ReadmeFIRST.txt

      This sample supports all browsers by using 2 modes: 

(required mode is automatically detected by the javascript)
- HTML5 based web camera capture (supported by Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Safari on iOS browsers)
- Flash based web camera capture (supported by Internet Explorer 9+ and any browser with flash support)

IMPORTANT about HTML5 webcamera support (Chrome, Firefox, Safari on desktop and iOS): it is required to run your website (even test website) via SSL connection. Otherwise, web camera won't initialize at all as it requies SSL connection. 

Visual Studio 2008/2010 or higher is required for this sample to run!

1) Install evaluation copy of BarCode Reader SDK from www.bytescout.com
2) in Visual Studio use File - Open - Web-Site.. and open the folder with this sample
3) Add a reference to ByteScout BarCode Reader dll using the menu: Website - Add Reference (find Bytescout Barcode Reader SDK on .NET tab, select and click OK to add a reference)
4) Right-click on "Default.aspx" file and select "Set As Start Page"
5) Run the project in debug mode
6) Visual Studio will run your project in Internet Explorer or another browser
If it run Internet Explorer then better copy the link from the IE and copy-and-paste to another browser with HTML5 web cam support like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari
7) When browser asks for permission to access web-cam click "Allow" to allow access to web cam 
8) click "START BARCODE SCAN.." button so the page will start automatically to grab frames from video and sending it to server-side code to read barcodes using Barcode Reader SDK
9) IMPORTANT: barcode should be in focus. Some webcams are not focusing on small barcodes, you may need to adjust the focus on your webcam so it will work OK with small images like barcodes

10) Click Stop to stop barcode scanning
Select barcode type to scan if need to scan a particular barcode type (by default scans for all known types)


TESTING:
- we recommend to use the Conveyor plugin to test your web app from local net or public url: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1448185.ConveyorbyKeyoti