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2D Barcode scanner

Not so Fast!

polobruce said:
It's pretty much impossible to read a 2d pdf417 barcode with the camera. Plus the speed of capturing and then decoding which usually means uploading to a server having it try to read and then downloading it is way too slow.

I'm looking at developing a scanner for the device but current apple os restrictions are preventing something like that for being developed.
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Nice try but you really need to research before making statements like that.

YOU CAN PHOTO CAPTURE A PDF417 2-d barcode with your iphone.

I just prooved this with taking a picture of a badge at my last trade show which is a 2-d pdf417 barcode and I emailed it to my self and then read it with this simple free software. Which means their has just not been a developer finding the need to incorporate the code into an Iphone app yet but its only a matter of time since I will now take photos of my client leads at a trade show and when i arrive back in the office, I can read them all into a database. This would be a great tool as an iphone app since they charge 2-300 dollars to rent lead retreaval scanners at the shows. Here is the free software link. http://www.onbarcode.com/scanner/pdf417.html

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