Re: [hylafax-users] Reading barcodes on faxed documents

[David Ruggiero <jdavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If "bardecode" is the command line package from some guy in the UK, we used it with huge success for many years (on Linux, though not with Hylafax but another fax package - shouldn't matter though, since it's command line).

IIRC, after some configuration tweaking it read about 95% of the barcodes on pretty variable quality (scanned) documents perfectly, and we just worked up a script to present the other 5% to an operator to have her type in the numbers. It was actually pretty spooky how well it worked, and the cost was ridiculously cheap at the time (maybe $250 for a site license?). Saved literally thousands of hours of manual work.

The author was also pretty available to help and do support, though we didn't need much.

I can dig up more details somehow if you need them - email me off-list.

David Ruggiero
GM Nameplate IT



> -----Original Message-----
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> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Randall
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:33 PM
> To: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [hylafax-users] Reading barcodes on faxed documents
>
> I've been looking all over the place for the ability to read barcodes
> out of tif files that come in from Faxes (hylafax) and other sources
> (direct upload, or alternate e-faxes). Has anyone done something like
> this in the past? I was reading about the enterprise version of
> Hylafax, and a command line tool called bardecode that sounded
> promising.
>
> If anyone has any clues, I'm all ears.
>
> Adam.
>
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> Adam Randall
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