Tutorial: Detect, Read, and Write Barcodes - Console C#

Speed and accuracy are key when encoding and decoding the machine readable data found within barcodes. LEADTOOLS offers top-of-the-line computer vision barcode libraries that are faster and more reliable than any other barcode SDK on the market, ensuring that you always get the best possible results.

Whether it's the PDF417 barcode found on the back of your driver's license, a QR barcode on a sticker, or the UPC barcode on the back of a product, LEADTOOLS can support it as well as over 100 different barcode symbologies.

With as little as four lines of code, you can determine a barcode's symbology, bounds, and much more. All supported symbologies can be quickly found and decoded, no matter the angle or color. To increase accuracy, LEAD offers many different configuration options such as EnableDoublePass, EnablePreprocessing, and EnableFastMode to modify the behavior of the barcode decoding to fit your application needs.

The C# code below shows you everything needed to detect and decode barcodes from an image. If you want a complete step-by-step tutorial, check out our tutorials on how to Detect and Extract Barcodes and Write 1D and 2D Barcodes to an Image.

// READ BARCODE
static void ReadBarcode(RasterImage image) 
{ 
    BarcodeEngine barcodeEngineInstance = new BarcodeEngine(); 
 
    try 
    { 
        BarcodeData[] dataArray = barcodeEngineInstance.Reader.ReadBarcodes(image, LeadRect.Empty, 0, null); 
 
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); 
        sb.AppendFormat("{0} barcode(s) found", dataArray.Length); 
        sb.AppendLine(); 
 
        for (int i = 0; i < dataArray.Length; i++) 
        { 
            BarcodeData data = dataArray[i]; 
 
            sb.AppendFormat("Symbology: {0}, Location: {1}, Data: {2}", data.Symbology.ToString(), data.Bounds.ToString(), data.Value); 
            sb.AppendLine(); 
        } 
        Console.WriteLine(sb.ToString()); 
    } 
    catch (Exception ex) 
    { 
        Console.WriteLine(ex); 
    } 
    Console.ReadLine(); 
}

// GENERATE BARCODE
static void WriteUPCABarcode(RasterImage image) 
{ 
   BarcodeData data = new BarcodeData 
   { 
      Symbology = BarcodeSymbology.UPCA, 
      Value = "01234567890", 
      Bounds = new LeadRect(10, 10, 600, 200) 
   }; 
 
   OneDBarcodeWriteOptions options = new OneDBarcodeWriteOptions 
   { 
      EnableErrorCheck = true, 
      TextPosition = BarcodeOutputTextPosition.Default 
   }; 
 
   barcodeEngine.Writer.WriteBarcode(image, data, options); 
} 

Try it out!

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