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What comes to your mind at the mention of virtual reality? Many people associate VR with video games. Although the technology has been used for playing video games, the VR revolution has made it possible to apply the technology in other areas. Virtual reality has been in the picture since the 1960s in the form of motion-tracking headsets, immersive stereoscopic videos, and experiences similar to Google’s interactive Street View. Over the years, advancement in VR [...]

Microservices vs monolithic architecture describes a major change in how IT addresses software development and which has been happily embraced by companies like Google, Amazon, and others. Let’s take a look at the difference between Microservices and monolithic architecture. Microservice architecture is related to cloud deployment technologies, API control, and combination technologies present a distinctive strategy to software development. The monolith is rather dismantled into a collection of autonomous services that are produced, used and [...]

As always, we're happy to announce a new SUMMER UPDATE from ByteScout. This time, we launch several new tools that can be useful for beginner and advanced developers as well as managers. Sensitive Data Suite (July 25, 2019) This is a new bundle of products to help with sensitive data analysis, redaction (auto and manual modes) for electronic documents, scanned and PDF documents. See details at https://bytescout.com/products/developer/sensitivedatasuite/index.html RPA Tools (August 5, 2019) This is a [...]

The ByteScout QR Code SDK is a one-stop solution for generating QR codes. This SDK features API level granularity giving immense power in the hand of the users as well as simple GUI based drag-n-drop design. This SDK can be used to generate QR Codes and barcodes from both images and PDFs. Here are some of the key features of this software: Read QR codes from an image; Convert vCard to QR code; Create color [...]

PDF.co provides restful API to read the barcode input file and extract its value. In this article, we'll explore the following programs to get a better understanding of PDF.co barcode reader API. Read barcode from URL input Read barcode from file input Read Barcode from file input Asynchronously Before we jump into programs let's get an overview of barcode reader API. Read Barcodes From URL or file API Details URL: https://api.pdf.co/v1/barcode/read/from/url Read barcodes from images, [...]

Bytescout provides seamless and easy to use SDK for reading barcodes from PDF or image file format. In this article, we'll explore Bytescout Barcode Reader SDK and see various programs to read barcode values from image/PDF files. Some of the strong points for Bytescout Barcode Reader SDK are as follows: Easy to use SDK. Reads barcodes from JPG, PNG, TIFF images and PDF (no other software required). Provides support for almost all barcode types. Works [...]

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Robotics process automation is driving the 4th industrial revolution. Together with artificial intelligence and machine learning, the technologies are creating opportunities for increasing scalability, reducing errors, improving compliance and cost savings. The cloud can connect disconnected or discrete systems, virtualize resources and crunch big data at fast speeds. The technologies free employees from repetitive tasks, empowering them to be more strategic and innovative in the workplace. In addition to routine process [...]

The current world is running on computers. Knowing simple Unix commands or basic Unix commands enable you to dive in the world of Unix or Linux system. It also allows confirming current system state and control files or directories. Here is the list of Unix command line basics for beginners. Once the Unix startup is concluded, it will display a login window for the user to insert username and password. If the username and password [...]

In this article, we'll see how to generate barcode with PDF.co Barcode generation API. This API is restful in nature, hence easily consumable by most of the programming frameworks without need to install any third-party library. PDF.co Barcode generation API generates high quality printable and scannable barcodes in images or PDF format. It covers all popular barcode types such as Code 39, Code 128 to QR Code, DataMatrix and PDF417. We'll be covering the following [...]

Programming is fun? Don’t you think so? Well, here’s why. There’s so much to learn as a programmer. Working as a software developer isn’t just about learning coding standards. The kind of learning involved is continuous and lasts a lifetime. You learn about machine learning, data structures and algorithms, and graphics, among other interesting topics. Programmers also develop dry codes that are easy to read and maintain. You get to explore and play with libraries, [...]