ByteScout Premium Suite – C# – Generate and check QR Code barcode with image inside

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How to generate and check QR code barcode with image inside in C# with ByteScout Premium Suite

Continuous learning is a crucial part of computer science and this tutorial shows how to generate and check QR code barcode with image inside in C#

This sample source code below will display you how to generate and check QR code barcode with image inside in C#. ByteScout Premium Suite is the set that includes 12 SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording and you can use it to generate and check QR code barcode with image inside with C#.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using Bytescout.BarCode;
using Bytescout.BarCodeReader;


namespace QRCodeWithImage
{
	class Program
	{
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			// GENERATE QR CODE WITH DECOARATION IMAGE:

			const string decorationImageFile = @".\logo.png";
			const string outputFile = @".\barcode.png";
			const string barcodeValue = "1234567890 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
			
			// Create and activate barcode generator instance
			using (Barcode barcode = new Barcode("demo", "demo"))
			{
				// Set barcode type
				barcode.Symbology = Bytescout.BarCode.SymbologyType.QRCode;

				// Set high QR Code error correction level
				barcode.Options.QRErrorCorrectionLevel = QRErrorCorrectionLevel.High;

				// Set barcode value
				barcode.Value = barcodeValue;

				// Add decoration image and scale it to 15% of the barcode square
				barcode.AddDecorationImage(decorationImageFile, 15);

				// Save generated barcode
				barcode.SaveImage(outputFile);

				Console.WriteLine("Barcode saved to " + outputFile);


				// CHECK THE BARCODE IS DECODABLE:

				// Create and activate barcode reader instance
				using (Reader reader = new Reader("demo", "demo"))
				{
					// Enable QR Code decoding
					reader.BarcodeTypesToFind.QRCode = true;

					// Read barcode from generated image
					FoundBarcode[] foundBarcodes = reader.ReadFrom(outputFile);

					// Check result
					if (foundBarcodes.Length > 0 && foundBarcodes[0].Type == Bytescout.BarCodeReader.SymbologyType.QRCode)
						Console.WriteLine("Barcode is decodable.");
					else
						Console.WriteLine("Barcode is not decodable!");
				}

				Console.WriteLine();
				Console.WriteLine("Press any key...");
				Console.ReadKey();
			}
		}
	}
}