It is plenty out there of barcode/QR code scanner apps (both on Android Play Store and Apple AppStore [and iOS 11 include native code scanner in the camera app]) so it may seem there is no need to build a new one but this is not true!

In this blog post I will describe how I built a barcode scanner app (ScannerMApp, currently available in a beta stage on the Play Store) in Delphi using the Edward Spelt’s Delphi port of the ZXing library and my TFrameStand component.

Delphi and C++ Builder NFC library for Android.

Uses Android NFC API
Provides reading, writing and formatting NFC tags
Provides Android Beam data transfer
Supports ISO-DEP, NDEF, NFC-A, NFC-B, NFC-F, NFC-V, MIFARE Classic and MIFARE Ultralight tags
Available for Delphi/C++ Builder XE7 - 10.3
Source code included in registered version
Royalty free distribution in applications

Optical character recognition component for .NET

Features:

Uses Tesseract OCR engine and Leptonica image library
Available for .NET 4.0 - 4.7
Source code included in full version
Royalty free distribution in applications

Components for viewing, navigating, text extracting and editing PDF files.
uses PDFium open-source PDF rendering engine
available for .NET 4.0 - 4.7
source code included in registered version
royalty free distribution in applications

Delphi linear algebra library.

Features

Uses OpenBLAS optimised BLAS and LAPACK library
Supports Windows 32 and Windows 64
Available for Delphi 5 - 10.2 and Lazarus 1.6.4
Source code included in registered version
Royalty free distribution in applications

Digital Signal Processing library for Delphi and C++ Builder.

uses General Purpose FFT Package
supports Windows 32 and Windows 64
available for Delphi 6 - 10.2
source code included in registered version
royalty free distribution in applications

Delphi library for creating and processing PDF documents.

FEATURES

Uses PDFsharp library
Uses Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or higher
Supports Windows 32 and Windows 64
Available for Delphi 7 - 10.2
Royalty free distribution in applications

Delphi and C++ Builder components you can use
to add messaging functionality to your applications.

uses standard Windows SimpleMAPI API
compatible with MS Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird and other email clients
available for Delphi/C++ Builder 5 - 10.3 and Lazarus 2.0
source code included in registered version
distributing components in applications is royalty free

Components for viewing, navigating, text extracting and editing PDF files.
uses PDFium open-source PDF rendering engine
available for .NET 4.0 - 4.7
source code included in registered version
royalty free distribution in applications

uses ZBar bar code reader library

supports EAN-13/UPC-A, EAN-8, UPC-E, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, Codabar, PDF417, GS1 DataBar, GS1 DataBar Expanded, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR Code barcodes
available for .NET 2 - 4.7
source code included in registered version
royalty free distribution in applications

Article is edited by: iamDeveloper - 6-04-2019, 23:03
Reason: Download link was missing.