Leadtools.Workflow.Barcode Introduction

The LEADTOOLS Windows Workflow offering includes WF activities for file loading and saving, TWAIN and WIA scanning, image processing, document image processing and clean-up, reading and writing barcodes, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). These new activities can be used in any application framework that supports Windows WF such as SharePoint and Microsoft CRM.

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a development framework that enables you to embed workflows in .NET Framework applications. A workflow application is a software application which coordinates and manages individual units of work, encapsulated as activities. Activities can be chained together to automate one or more processes. The processes are usually business-related, but can be any process that requires a series of steps that can be automated via software.  

Leadtools.Workflow.Barcode Namespace extends LEADTOOLS Barcode functionality to allow developers to create Windows Workflow applications that read and write barcodes from\to an image.

For background and full details, see http://www.leadtools.com/sdk/document/document-addon-barcode.htm.

For 1D Linear examples, definitions, and their uses, see http://www.leadtools.com/SDK/document/Document-Addon-Barcodelinear1D.htm.

For a table containing information useful when writing 1D barcode data, see http://www.leadtools.com/SDK/Document/Document-Addon-Barcodelinear1D-chart.htm.

 

Key Features:

• Read multiple barcodes at any orientation using a scanner or camera with a frame-grabber.
• High-speed barcode recognition. All barcodes in an image are located and reported back in fractions of a second.
• High accuracy reading and writing.
• Write barcodes to any supported raster image file or to any Windows-compliant printer.
• Encode thousands of characters per barcode symbol with 2D barcode technology.
• Read barcodes from or write barcodes to selected regions of interest.
• Read and write barcodes with specified colors.
• Integrate LEADTOOLS' extensive image processing technologies for complete control over your barcode recognition process.
• Advanced document cleanup functions to improve recognition of barcodes in images with real world problems.
• Report comprehensive information with 100% confidence for all detected barcodes such as the barcode type, data string, location, check digit, etc.
• Thread Safe for multithreaded applications.
• Includes all popular barcode types.

Supported Environments:

The toolkit comes in Win32 and x64 editions that can support development of software applications for any of the following environments:

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP
• Windows 2000
• Windows 2000 Server and newer

System Requirements:
You can download the required software from Microsoft's download website.

• Visual Studio 2005 or later version.
• .NET Framework 3.0 or later installed.
• Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation*
• "Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit Update for Windows Vista" or
  "Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework version 3.5"

* Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation can be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en