Web Services of encoding/decoding 2D barcode?

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Sheldon

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Feb 18, 2010, 9:33:22 PM2/18/10
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Is there any such open and free web services of encoding/decoding 2D
barcodes? That is you send it a message programmatically, it returns a
barcode image. And if you send it a barcode image, it sends the
decoded message back.

Sean Owen

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Feb 19, 2010, 4:47:22 AM2/19/10
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Yes, for encoding, your best bet is the Google Chart API:
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/gallery/qr_codes.html

You can construct a URL which returns the barcode as PNG.

For decoding, look at http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx . You can just do
the same POST that the form on this page is doing to send it an image
and it will reply with the content.

Lachezar Dobrev

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Dec 11, 2012, 5:25:18 AM12/11/12
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(repost, sent it off-list by mistake)

The Google Chart API has it's own limitations.
Frankly every time I try to figure the limitations out I hit a snag
at actually understanding what is written. There seem to be limits on
the amount of queries for generating the «charts».

For Android it is pointless to call a web-service since the QR Code
encoding is built-in the ZXing Barcode Scanner application, and is
available for integration from third party applications using Intent
calls, or using the android-integration sub-project. I would frankly
remove any application that expects me to believe it needs Internet
Access to render QR Codes.

2012/12/11 avaiya kirti <avaiya...@gmail.com>:
> Hello sean,
> How can I use this chart API to generate qrcode for android application?
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