Barcode Scanner (application)

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Barcode Scanner

Developer(s)	Sean Owen, Daniel Switkin, ZXing Team
Initial release	1 March 2008 (2008-03-01)
Stable release	4.7.8[1] / 11 September 2018; 6 years ago (2018-09-11)
Repository	github.com/zxing/zxing
Written in	Java
Operating system	Android
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	Main site Google Play

The application Barcode Scanner is an Android app, from the open-source project ZXing (short for Zebra Crossing), that allows an Android device with imaging hardware (a built-in camera) to scan barcodes or 2D barcodes and retrieve the data encoded.^[2] Information encoded often includes web addresses, geographical coordinates, and small pieces of text, in addition to commercial product codes. This Android-based system has similar functionality to a hardware barcode reader.

This application supports many different types of barcodes, including those used to identify products in commerce. The Barcode Scanner can automatically search the Web to identify a product with a barcode and use, for example, price-comparison information between vendors.

The application can decode several 2D barcodes including the widely used QR Code and Data Matrix. QR codes are often embedded in websites; Barcode Scanner can open a browser at the encoded site, for example, facilitating the download of an application.

As of May 2016^[update], this is one of the most downloaded Android applications as listed by Google Play, with over 600,000 ratings and over 126 million user installs.^[3][4]

Detection performance of ZXing was assessed on close to 2 million synthetic images for three types of barcodes: QR Code, MaxiCode, and EAN-13 1D barcode. Problematic angles where decoding often fails were found, for example 45, 135, 225 and 315 degrees for QR Codes.^[5]

• Automated identification and data capture (AIDC)
• Barcode printer
• Code (disambiguation)
• European Article Numbering-Uniform Code Council
• Global Trade Item Number
• Identifier
• Inventory control system
• List of most downloaded Android applications
• Object hyperlinking
• Semacode
• SMS barcode
• SPARQCode

• Development Site
• Barcode Scanner on Google Play
• Barcode Scanner Android package at the F-Droid repository