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+1 to Qole's proposal and also would like the ability to save the image and barcode.

Yeah, perhaps I should add some instructions.

Basically the following is happening. When you press the Scan! button, the camera is autofocused (you can also make this happen while scanning by pressing the image window itself) and then the video data (running at only ~10fps, hence the slow screen updates, partly) is passed to the decoders.

The ZBar decoder is run on each frame as it runs quickly, therefore if you have a 1D or a QR code (especially QR as it handles out of focus better than 1D atm) it will probably be decoded almost immediately. The libdmtx decoder is run in a thread and is only allowed to run twice per second as it's rather slow (and the cause of the stutters in the output video).

Therefore, as scanning is quite quick, but out-of-focus is more of a problem, there's not that much point in giving a "now decoding" message. Really it needs work doing on the 1D and Datamatrix decoders to accept more out of focus images (which I should add I'm going to start once I've got the base code moved to Qt, so we can have Python plugins).

This was in my original incarnation (the original idea was to have a book/Cd/DVD database integrated), but this is probably better implemented as a plugin (as it would be easier to do in Python), so don't worry, it's on the todo list as it's the reason I started writing this app!

Great, that's really what I would like to use it for.
Only instead of media I would like to support a DB of all our devices at work and where they are placed/installed. Currently I 'm forced to carry my laptop and a usb scanner.

Thanks

Sounds like an interesting use and certainly a DB-type plugin should be easily modified to support something like that, especially if written in Python.

@lardman
Thanks for this application,
but when i open a imagefile from DCIM directory
i get 'error opening file'

Yeah sorry that function is broken at the moment.

We're working hard on mbarcode-qt with a nicer ui and plugin support (and working image scanning I promise!), should have something to show you guys soon (I hope within a week or so).

Can I help? New to devlopment on linux but willing to learn

What work would need to be done to port this script to Maemo? http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/38972

Is there a way to make the script grab a scanned barcode and auto magically paste it into the search box?

Sounds like that's specific to the Mac LibraryThing app.

Dragly and I have been working on the Qt version of mbarcode, apologies it's taking a while but I'm pretty busy at work and he's got coursework to do.

I hope to soon (i.e. within a week, he says ) have a basic version out (with only very basic plugins) so that people can start adding their own more complex (and useful) plugins.