read barcode with laptop camera?

[blackest_knight]

its a bit fiddly you need the jlinbar.jar
V4L4J theres a deb file for that

but ZXing is a bit more fiddly nothing obvious to install that.

[eode]

I know this is a dead thread, but in case anyone stumbles across it.

The zbar-tools package (which includes zbarcam and zbarimg) will allow you to use your webcam (or an image) to read a barcode.


Command line:
zbarcam
or
zbarcam -nodisplay # (to disable video window)

..this will spit out any barcodes it sees, including the barcode type.

Example output:
EAN-13:0766397444024
EAN-13:0016728123327


..now, those are a couple of CDs I just scanned, but this program has a terrible time with my very fuzzy laptop camera, and I have to hold it right and avoid bad lighting angles. It helps to have a camera that can handle motion and that produces good, crisp images.

If you have video on, and see red dots, it recognizes there's a barcode to read, but is having difficulty reading it. Green dots indicate a successful read.