Barcode reading using picture taken using mobile phone camera
How do we do programmatic reading of a barcode that is captured using a mobile phone camera? For example, how do that using iPhone or Android or Java ME? Do we need separate hardware to read bar code or can we do image manipulation? Google has made this INCREDIBLY simple with their Zebra Crossing libraries. They have support for doing scanning via images on the following platforms: J2SE Android and others have ported to: J2ME CSharp CPP Rim iPhone Bug As another poster already mentioned, on Android you could also use an Intent to call Barcode Reader with something like: public Button