I am challenged with the following task and have being looking around for a solution preferably in Perl or via a command line utility and it must work on Windows and Linux.

I don’t know about a Perl solution for this, only for the other way around, i.e. * creating * the bar code.

Your best bet is to find a C/C++ program that you can run on both Windows and Linux. The suggestion of brother pjotrik: http://zebra.sourceforge.net/ is a good starting point. Otherwise you will have to spend some money on it. There are many commercial alternatives available.

But first you must find out exactly what kind of barcode is being used. If it’s a 1D barcode there are at least 20 different ones!

In general the barcode, in your case the quality of the scans, has to meet certain specifications otherwise it cannot be scanned at all. Normally logistic companies (like GLS for which I worked) have some sort of certification process put in place to accept barcodes from customers. How good are your scans? I don't know where you live but it might be simple to check by going to the supermarket and try to scan it there.

In reply to Re: Barcode Recognition by dHarry
in thread Barcode Recognition by avo

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