TOP-7 Barcode Scanners for Android Devices

Barcodes are small images tagged or pasted on products that contain certain information about the product. Barcodes are often used by retail stores, warehouses, and even government industries in order to encode information about the product, vendor, and receiver of the product. It can also encode information regarding the source and destination of the mail or parcel. Virtually, you can store almost anything in barcodes. Scanners are special devices used to decode the information in the barcode. Now with the advent of smartphones, several companies have developed applications that use the camera of your mobile device to capture the barcode image and then decode the information. In this article, we have presented some of the famous and user-friendly barcode scanning apps for android.

1. ShopSavvy

ShopSavvy barcode scanner is the best barcode scanner available freely at Google Play. This barcode scanner allows users to scan a barcode and decode the information regarding the product. It also automatically makes comparisons between several available products and tells you which the best deal is. The Google Play link for this application is here.

2. Barcode Scanner+(Plus)

Barcode Scanner + is another extremely efficient barcode scanning app that scans the barcode in both vertical and horizontal directions. You can decode virtually any barcode using this application and it also includes the light on dark barcode option in order to correctly decode the information. This barcode app costs 3.00$ and can be accessed at the following link on Google play

3. RedLaser Barcode and QR Scanner

Redlaser Barcode and QR Scanner is another recommended scanning application for devices. This application is synchronized with Google, eBay, Shopping.com, and Milo and fetches the product information from these vendors. Another brilliant aspect of this application is that apart from a keyword search, this scanner allows you to search products via voice and image search, and last but not least; you can also share your search on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. The link to the app is here.

4. Google Goggles

Google Goggles is a well-known image recognition application that has been around for quite some time now. This application recommends the user to visit places, provides information about the paintings and monuments. A startling thing about this app is that this app can also be used as a barcode scanner and can decode QR codes. This application can be accessed at the link.

5. ScanLife Barcode and QR Reader

ScanLife Barcode and QR reader is a multipurpose, all-in-one barcode scanning application with the potential of scanning virtually any barcode. If you are going out shopping, this is a must-have application for your android device.

6. AT & T Code Scanner

AT & T code scanner is another scanning application and can be handy when comparing prices and fetching details of the application.

7. Quick Mark Barcode Scanner

Quick Mark barcode scanner is another multipurpose barcode scanning application for Android which allows the user to scan barcodes like, QR Codes, code128, Code39, Quick codes, Interleaved 2 of 5, Data Matrix, and other 2-D codes. This application can be downloaded from the following link
You can probably be interested in a webcam as a barcode reader tutorial. This one shows how to read barcodes using a web camera with Barcode Reader SDK.

   

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