{{Other uses|Zbar (disambiguation){{!}}Zbar}} {{Infobox software | name = ZBar | logo = ZBar logo.png | logo size = 100px | screenshot = ZBar.png | screenshot size = 250px | caption = Screenshot of ZBar | developer = ZBar developers | latest release version = {{wikidata|property|reference|P348}} | latest release date = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|P348|P577}}}} | programming language = C | operating system = Cross-platform | genre = Barcode reader | license = GNU LGPL | website = {{URL|https://git.linuxtv.org/zbar.git}} }} {{Portal|Free and open-source software}} '''ZBar''' is an open-source C barcode reading library with C++, Python,<ref name="python 3">{{cite web |title=Support for both Python 2 and 3 is provided via PyZbar package |url=https://pypi.org/project/pyzbar/|website=Pypi.org|access-date=8 August 2018}} </ref> Perl, and Ruby bindings.<ref name="main">{{cite web|last=Brown|first=Jeff|title=ZBar bar code reader|url=https://zbar.sourceforge.net/index.html|website=Zbar.sourceforge.net|access-date=2 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=ZBar bar code reader – Download version 0.20 and upper|url=https://linuxtv.org/downloads/zbar/|website=Linustv.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=ZBar – Download older versions|url=https://zbar.sourceforge.net/download.html|website=Zbar.sourceforge.net|access-date=8 August 2018}}</ref> It is also implemented on Linux and Microsoft Windows as a command-line application,<ref>{{cite web|last=Tyler|first=Joshua|title=ZBar Brings Barcode And QR Code Scanning To Your Desktop|url=http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/02/zbar-brings-barcode-and-qr-code-scanning-to-your-desktop/#comments|website=Lifehacker.com.au|date=January 2005 |access-date=2 April 2011}}</ref> and as an iPhone application.<ref>{{cite web|last=Brown|first=Jeff|title=ZBar bar code reader – iPhone|url=https://zbar.sourceforge.net/iphone/index.html|website=Zbar.sourceforge.net|access-date=2 April 2011}}</ref>
It was originally developed at SourceForge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/zbar/files/zbar/|title=ZBar bar code reader - Browse /zbar at SourceForge|website=Sourceforge.net|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref> As the latest official release (version 0.10) was in 2009-10-27, a fork was created in March, 2017, converting it to use qt5 and libv4l, improving it to better support the Video4Linux API version 2.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-09 |title=GitHub - mchehab/zbar |url=https://github.com/mchehab/zbar |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=GitHub}}</ref>
==Features== * Image scanning * Real-time scanning of video streams * C++, Python, Perl, and Ruby bindings * Qt, GTK+, and PyGTK GUI bindings * Recognition of EAN-13, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR code symbologies<ref name="main"/>
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==External links== * [https://linuxtv.org/ LinuxTV site where the latest version is available] * {{GitHub|mchehab/zbar}} * {{Official website|https://zbar.sourceforge.net/}}
Category:Free software programmed in C Category:Software using the GNU Lesser General Public License
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