Guide Overview
It's easy to use BC.NetBarcodeReader.Ean13 decoder library to read and recognize EAN-13 barcode symbologies from images in your .NET applications. Here we will show you in simple steps. Please firstly download and get the free trial library (BC.NetBarcodeReaderTrial.Ean13.dll). And the only thing for the integration of our library is to add your project reference to it.
We take the Console Application as an example of how to use BC.NetBarcodeReader.Ean13 decoder library to read and recognize EAN-13 barcodes from images. For ease of use, here are simple code examples for C# and VB.NET developers. To recognize all linear and 2d barcode symbologies, you should use the library, BC.NetBarcodeReader.All.
1. Decode and recognize EAN-13 barcodes from an image using BC.NetBarcodeReader.Ean13 decoder library.
How to in C#
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using BC.NetBarcodeReaderTrial.Ean13;
namespace BC.NetBarcodeReaderDemo
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
ReadOneBarcodeTypefromImage();
}
public static void ReadOneBarcodeTypefromImage()
{
string[] data = NetBarcodeReader.Recognize("Ean13.bmp", NetBarcodeReader.Ean13);
foreach (string result in data)
{
Console.WriteLine(result);
}
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}
How to in VB.NET
Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Linq
Imports System.Text
Imports BC.NetBarcodeReaderTrial.Ean13
Module BCNetBarcodeReaderDemo
Sub Main()
ReadOneBarcodeTypefromImage()
End Sub
Public Sub ReadOneBarcodeTypefromImage()
Dim data As String() = NetBarcodeReader.Recognize("Ean13.bmp", NetBarcodeReader.Ean13)
For Each result As String In data
Console.WriteLine(result)
Next
Console.ReadKey()
End Sub
End Module