On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 00:04 +0000, Nathan Rixham wrote: > Adam Randall wrote: > > I'm amazed that this either doesn't exist, or is hard to find. I > > basically am looking for a way to read in an image into PHP, or shell > > out to something on the Linux side, and determine, and see if it has a > > barcode in it or not. If it does, I need to decode the barcode so that > > I can identify the page as a separator page or not. > > > > Basically, what I'm doing is reading in a PDF or TIF which will > > contain multiple pages (probably a lot of pages) and look for a page > > containing a barcode. The barcode will identify the page as a > > separator page which will be used to split the multipage document into > > smaller single or multipage documents. > > > > Has anyone ever heard of anything that might help me in this process? > > > > Adam. > > ooh ooh why don't you do what recaptcha did and have the public decode > them for you! > I knew I'd read about something like this recently. In Linux Magazine Dec08, one of the projects is a Perl script that uses a scanner attached to the machine to read barcodes and use the free service at Amazon to retrieve information about it. I think it may be the scanner itself which reads the barcode and converts that into a number, rather than it being purely software based as there's nothing in the Perl code example that seems to do this. Not sure if this is any help? Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
