Overview

The royalty free SD-TOOLKIT Barcode Reader SDK for Microsoft Windows Mobile and Windows Phone allows you to read barcode symbols from C, C++, C#, and VB.NET programming languages. By using our barcode api you will be able to integrate barcode reading functionality into your windows mobile or windows phone 8 application within several hours or even less. Tools, information, and sample applications are provided to help you integrate high performance barcode recognition functionality into your application or solution.

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product version: 2.1.136

product release notes:

2.1.136.1 (2014/11/16) - Fixed UPC-E recognition issue 2.1.133.1 (2014/09/09) - Fixed Code39 recognition issue 2.1.132.1 (2014/08/26) - Fixed recognition performance issue 2.1.129.1 (2014/08/06) - Fixed PDF417 rotated symbol recognition issue 2.1.126.1 (2014/07/28) - Increased recognition accuracy of PDF417, Datamatrix and QRCode symbols 2.1.121.1 - Increased barcodes recognition accuracy on distored images 2.1.120.1 - Fixed stability issue for Datamarix symbols 2.1.117.1 - Increased PDF417 recofnition accuracy - Windows Phone 8. ScanCompleteEventArgs extended to contain image on which result has been recognized 2.1.116.1 - Increased QR Code read accuracy on noizy images 2.1.115.1 - Increased QR Code read accuracy 2.1.112.1 - Fixed Datamatrix performance issue - Fixed Datamatrix recognition accuracy - Fixed Code 39 Recognition issue 2.1.104.1 - Fixed multiple QR-Codes detection 2.1.101.1 - Fixed Code128 FNC symbols issue 2.1.100.1 - Fixed Individual Developer License issue 2.1.99.1 - Fixed Load from HBITMAP - Fixed Code 128 small quiet zone issue 2.1.98.1 - Fixed recognition of Code 39 symbols with double start symbol 2.1.96.1 - Optimized large jpeg files loading algorithm 2.1.95.1 - Fixed EAN13 recognition accuracy issue 2.1.93.1 - Added support of mirrored images contained QR-Codes symbol 2.1.91.1 - Added QRCode generator functionality - Fixed Datamatrix distored find pattern symbol detection 2.1.88.1 - Fixed License issue - Fixed Datamatrix distored symbol recognition - Added support for Windows Phone 8 2.1.87.1 - Fixed Datamatrix barcode performance issue - Fixed QRCode numeric data decoding issue 2.1.86.1 - Fixed Datamatrix barcode position detection on image - Fixed Datamatrix barcode recognition issues 2.1.85.1 - 1D Recognition accuracy improvements 2.1.84.1 - 1D Recognition accuracy improvements 2.1.83.1 - Datamatrix recognition improvements - PDF417 recognition improvements on defocused images 2.1.82.1 - Fixed multiple barcodes output. 2.1.81.1 - Increased +2 and +5 barcode recognition speed 2.1.80.1 - Fixed low contrast Datamatrix recognition issue - Increased +5 barcode recognition accuracy 2.1.78.1 - Increased recognition performance for 1D barcode images - MSI Checksum calculation fix 2.1.77.1 - Increased recognition accuracy of defocused 1D barcode images 2.1.75.1 - Code 128 recognition accuracy improvements 2.1.74.1 - Original Pdf embedded images resolution is used for recognition 2.1.73.1 - Java interface extension to read image files 2.1.72.1 - UPC-E barcode symbol support added 2.1.71.1 - MSI Plessey barcode symbol support - QR Code symbol version 2 recognition quality improvements 2.1.68.1 - Java inteface fix for png image sources 2.1.67.1 - Datamatrix algorythm improvements 2.1.66.1 - Datamatrix algorythm improvements 2.1.65.1 - PDF417 algorythm improvements 2.1.64.1 - Code39 algorythm improvements 2.1.63.1 - Code11 fix 2.1.61.1 - Licensing issues fix 2.1.58.1 - Delphi sample added to the setup. 2.1.56.1 - Fixed IntelliMail algorithm issue. 2.1.53.1 - Fixed EAN13 checksum issue. 2.1.52.1 - Fixed license verification issue. - Modified VB.Net Sample reference path 2.1.50.1 - Fixed trial activation issue. 2.1.48.1 - Fixed critical issue related to result processing routine in VB6 smple. 2.1.47.1 - Recognition accuracy improvements of PDF417 barcode types 2.1.46.1 - Trial version extension to support QR Code. - VB6 Sample extension to demonstrate Barcode type selection - Recognition accuracy improvements of QR Code and PDF417 barcode types 2.1.45.1 - Fixed Setup license activation problem; - increasing recognition speed up to 40% of PDF417 symbology; In earlier versions - Usage of SDK components from C programms fix; - Code 93 symbology recognition fix;

Supported Platforms

• Desktop OS: Windows XP SP2 and higher
• Mobile Platforms: Windows Mobile 5.0 and later, Windows CE 5.01 and later, Windows Phone 8

Supported barcode types

• 1D Barcodes: Code 11, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, Patch Code, EAN13, EAN8, UPC-A, UPC-B, Plus 2, Plus 5, Intelligent Mail, Planet.
• 2D Barcodes: Data Matrix, PDF417, QRCode, MicroQR

Architecture

The diagram below demonstrate basic SDK components usage concept.

To access barcode recognition functionality your application will communicate with SDT Barcode runtime components through programming interface (SDK library). Programming interface is programming language dependent. Both Libraries and runtime components are included into SDK. Runtime components must be included into your application setup for distribution to your clients as a part of your software application. Seee below which types of runtimes can be used from certain programming languages. The core SDK component is Barcode Reader Engine. On input the Barcode Reader Engine receive image file or image data allocated in memory. The image can be either scanned document or captured photo. The Engine reads the input and recognize known types of barcodes on it. On output the Engine returns a list of detected barcode values and properties such as position on image, barcode type etc.

Runtimes and Supported Programming languages

• Native API library Windows (SDTBarcode.dll): C/C++, C#
• .NET library (SDTBarcodeARM.Net.dll): Managed C++, C#, VB.NET

The following diagrams demonstrate linkage between various libraries and a language/technology it is mainly made for.

Microsoft Windows Mobile runtimes and API

SDTBarcode.dll - Native Windows CE DLL. Core barcode recognition API library. This library export functions can be called from most programming languages.
SDTBarcodeARM.Net.dll - .NET Assembly. A .NET wrapper on the top of native API developed as a .NET control for integration into C# and VB.NET application.

 

Microsoft Windows Phone 8 runtimes and API

SDTCoreBarcodeWP.dll, SDTCoreBarcodeWP.winmd - Native Windows Phone 8 runtimes. Core barcode recognition API library. Not called directly but from SDTBarcodeScannerWP.dll
SDTBarcodeScannerWP.dll - Windows Phone 8 .NET Assembly. A .NET control for integration barcode recognition into Windows phone 8 XAML.

 

More details regarding how to read barcodes from various programming languages you will find in Using the SDK section.