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2010-08-10 , 09:44
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Originally Posted by Habmala View Post
I'm having no luck reading that, but I wouldn't expect to. It's a really glossy textured surface, I'm having a hard time recognising it thruogh the lens. I suppose my eyes are (still atleast ) generally better than the camera and recognition-software..

This was with not ideal lighting, but still good. I'm not sure more light would benefit, as the surface would reflect even more.
Yes, I know, that it is small and difficult to read. That's not unusual that a small glossy code would be hard to recognise.

I mean another problem. QR code isn't always black on white, and the application doesn't recognise the code if I invert the colours. I pasted a QR code from Wikipedia into Paint - it could be read; I inverted colours - it couldn't be read.

So, even if surface wasn't glossy and camera was sharper than bird's eye, the application wouldn't recognise the code on the wall charger due to "incorrect" colours.

If Nokia put such codes, then some code readers can read it. Then theoretically mbarcode should be able to read it, too. But it wouldn't be easy, I understand. Just like reading MaxiCode - curious but superfluous, nobody needs to read it in reality.