My application is preparing a cover-sheet for submitting documents by fax. I identify the batch by printing a Code39 on it.
The incoming faxes are received as tif files and my small c# service is polling for new faxes and calling a decoding function.
Currently I use a Win32 dll to recognize the barcode (QSbar39) and I am facing some problems with it – timeouts, hangs, errors etc. which are painful to handle.
I’d prefer the have some free .Net component or an open source class to integrate.
Whould you take a different approach? What tool do you use?
Many thanks for your answers!
BarBara is an open source barcode recognition library. It certainly isn’t perfect, but I have gotten it to work (if I remember it needed some twiddling to get it to compile in VS2008) pretty well.