For people who want to use QR Codes within the Flash environment, LOGOSWARE (the company I work for) has released a QR Code Reader into the Spark Project.
It is essentially a library that recognizes and decodes any QR Code from any image source.
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library implemented in Java. Our focus is on using the built-in camera on mobile phones to photograph and decode barcodes on the device, without communicating with a server. We currently have support for:
* UPC-A and UPC-E
* EAN-8 and EAN-13
* Code 39
* Code 128
* QR Code
* ITF
* RSS-14 (Stacked and Limited)
* Data Matrix ('alpha' quality)
* PDF 417 ('alpha' quality)
ZBar is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, such as video streams, image files and raw intensity sensors. It supports many popular symbologies (types of bar codes) including EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39 and Interleaved 2 of 5.
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library implemented in Java. Our focus is on using the built-in camera on mobile phones to photograph and decode barcodes on the device, without communicating with a server. We currently have production-quality support for:
This is a small application that can be fed the output video stream of a webcam, in which it can recognise and decode code-39 barcodes. It is simply a console application that is limited to parsing an input raw ppm stream, outputting the barcodes to the stdout.
Barcodepedia is a community based online barcode database. The database is completely free to use, and everyone is welcome to contribute. Although it is possible to create a user on Barcodepedia, you can use the entire homepage without one.
Mediakatalog Mashup-Anwendung (u.a. basierend auf den Web-Services von Amazon) für Mac-User, die es dem Benutzer ermöglicht seine eigenen Medien wie Bücher, CDs, Filme, Computer- und Video-Spiele zu verwalten. Interessant dabei ist das Feature den Barcode seiner Medien direkt über eine angeschlossene Webcam, Kamera oder einen USB-Barcode-Scanner einzulesen und so in Sekunden alle Daten inkl. Cover sofort verfügbar zu haben - ohne ein einziges Wort zu tippen!