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zxing-js / browser

ZXing for JS's browser layer with decoding implementations for browser.
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Does this even work? #108

Open distabiolijze opened 1 year ago

distabiolijze commented 1 year ago

It's hard to tell what is actually needed for this to work. Simple 1d isbn barcodes are not scanned. I wanna scan a bunch of books and it only successfully scans 1 for every 10 books. What even is the point? And I can't seem to figure out if it is something I am doing wrong or if it is the tool that is simply useless.

Chloe-Meinshausen commented 1 year ago

I am in the same boat. After much trouble, trying to read/ understand the scant documentation, I got it working and turned to a different section of my project. When I came back to it after a few weeks it wasn't working any more.. Maybe 1 in 6 isbn /EANs would work. I turned back to the React zxing fork that works with zxing/library. https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-zxing. It also has bad documentation and I couldn't get it to work with EANS either. But I noticed it has a sample implementation and the sample works! (some EANS still don't register but its more like a 5/6 success rate)

pneves001 commented 1 year ago

Good question. I can't scan QR codes with this. All I get is a checksum error. And there are no docs to tell us how to get it to work. I've tried numerous different methods. from reading off the canvas to using a image URL the result is the same.