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lquessenberry
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My coworker literally thinks that handheld barcode scanners scan the barcodes like a photo scanner and uploads them to a server to compare the image with an existing one in the database.

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can't make this up

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  • 0
    8y
    ew haha, punch him in the arm for me.
  • 1
    8y
    Wow that is a lot of work. They will learn.
  • 1
    8y
    @MicroNibble this guy makes barcodes for our print ads and tests them with a scan gun. I've got a list a mile long of dumbass shit he says and does.
  • 0
    8y
    I believe some kinds of barcodes are still done this way. Like the kind on the back of your drivers license
  • 0
    8y
    @xroad No, the PDF417 barcode contains an incredible amount of information. No server validation there.
  • 0
    8y
    @kevbost I couldn't find any library that could do it client side
  • 0
    8y
    @xroad https://pdf417.mobi

    Don't get me wrong, it's extremely hairy stuff. When I was researching pdf417 it was for a handheld barcode scanner that already had the DL parser installed on it.
  • 0
    8y
    @kevbost I actually tried that. That one is server side. You gotta subscribe for their service
  • 0
    8y
    @xroad Oh for real, I didn't know that. You're doing this from mobile as in via phone camera?
  • 0
    8y
    @kevbost yup
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    8y
    @xroad Thankfully I didn't have to do any parsing, that was all handled by the hardware. Image ocr is out of my league, ha
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