I was intrigued by this topic, so did a little research myself. First of all, I'm not particularly inclined to jump through Apple's hoops when it comes to installing applications on a phone I own. So, I only looked into doing this for Android.
I came across this 6 line piece of code for reading barcodes on Android: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/android-barcode-scanner/ This requires that the Android device has the Android Scripting Environment installed. http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-android-scripting.html Here's information on installing the ASE within the Android emulator: http://www.akeric.com/blog/?p=879 It's even possible to run scripts within ASE by snapshotting them as QR barcodes (the script is encoded in the QR barcode): http://www.submergedspaceman.com/blog/2010/02/16/android-scripting-environment-is-incredible-part-i/ How to access this from within Livecode (given that shell() is inoperable on Android/iPhone)? It _might_ work by using the "launch URL" command, giving a shell script that is recognised by ASE. Of course, this solution is not going to be of use to those wanting to distribute a barcode scanner Livecode app to the general public. However, in a specific client environment it may be possible to concoct a solution. Concocting this solution (indeed, investigating that it is possible) is probably less complicated than writing an image-processor/barcode reader oneself. Furthermore, if it is possible, it would open up a world of possibilities on Android. Here's a list of tutorials on other things that can be done within the ASE (It's pretty impressive): http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/wiki/Tutorials Hope that is of some use/interest to someone. Bernard On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:00 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > The code you want would be like a OCR application, and would require a bit > of special processing to work. > Hi contrast, sharpening, THEN the character recognition, which should work > at different angles. > > My point is this is not trivial code. > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
