in reply to Barcode Recognition

Don't all bar codes have numbers as well as horizontal lines, they seem to in the UK, can't you use (OCR) Optical reading software with a scanner.

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Re^2: Barcode Recognition
by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 26, 2008 at 20:27 UTC

    How is OCR easier than recognizing bar codes? This seems like transforming the problem into a more difficult problem in the same problem domain (image recognition). Bar codes were developed to avoid OCR!

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