ZBar

For other uses, see Zbar.

ZBar is an open-source C barcode reading library with C++, Python,^[2] Perl, and Ruby bindings.^[3][4][5] It is also implemented on Linux and Microsoft Windows as a command-line application,^[6] and as an iPhone application.^[7]

ZBar
Screenshot of ZBar
Developer(s)	ZBar developers
Stable release	0.23.93[1] / 9 January 2024; 18 months ago (9 January 2024)
Repository	github.com/mchehab/zbar
Written in	C
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Barcode reader
License	GNU LGPL
Website	git.linuxtv.org/zbar.git

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It was originally developed at SourceForge.^[8] As the latest official release (version 0.10) was in 2009-10-27, a fork was created in March, 2017, converting it to use qt5 and libv4l, improving it to better support the Video4Linux API version 2.^[9]

Features

• Image scanning
• Real-time scanning of video streams
• C++, Python, Perl, and Ruby bindings
• Qt, GTK+, and PyGTK GUI bindings
• Recognition of EAN-13, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR code symbologies^[3]