JailHelper Barcode recognition SDK reads barcodes from image files or memory. Our barcode recognition software reads linear barcodes and it is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. Other OS incl. embedded system available upon request.

Our barcode recognition toolkit supports several barcode types as:CODE 39, CODABAR, INTERLEAVED 2 OF 5, INDUSTRIAL 2 OF 5, BCD MATRIX, EAN 8, EAN 13, CODE 128, UPCE, UPCA, CODE 93.

For each barcode found the engine reports back:

* Barcode string
* Barcode type
* Barcode location
* Check-character status


Our barcode recognition library is able to process monochrome and color images. JailHelper has a number of built-in color conversion algorithms specially designed for barcode recognition.

Supported programming interfaces:

* Windows DLL
* Linux Shared Object SO
* Java
* .Net Managed Component
* Mac static library
* COM (soon)


Supported Operating Systems:

* Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP
* Linux
* Mac OS X
* Windows CE (soon)
* Symbian ( soon )
* FreeBSD ( soon )

Barcodes can be read from both color and monochrome images with at least 72 dpi.
Samples for C, C#, Java, VB are available. Samples for other languages like Python, PHP, Ruby, Lua are available upon request

JailHelper barcode reader toolkit supports many formats, such as: BMP, DDS, Dr. Halo files, GIF, HDR, ICO, IFF, JNG, JPEG/JIF, KOALA, LBM, Kodak PhotoCD, MNG, PCX, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, PhotoShop, Raw Fax G3, SGI, Sun RAS, TARGA, TIFF, WBMP, XBM, XPM,etc.