The Black Ice Barcode SDK/ActiveX toolkits are robust and efficient libraries of 1D and 2D barcoding functions, such as reading/decoding, writing/encoding, searching barcodes, and detecting barcode orientation. The Black Ice Barcode SDK/ActiveX toolkits are written to be image toolkit independent, and can be used with any Black Ice imaging toolkit, such as the TIFF SDK/ActiveX , the Image SDK/ActiveX , or the Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX They can also be used with any third party imaging platform.
The Black Ice Barcode SDK/ActiveX toolkits support the following Barcode standards:
Barcode | Type | Supported Characters | Length |
EAN 13 | Linear | Numbers | 12 data digits and 1 check digit; 2 or 5 digit supplement optional |
EAN 8 | Linear | Numbers | |
UPC-A | Linear | Numbers | 11 data digits and 1 check digit; 2 or 5 digit supplemental optional |
UPC-E | Linear | Numbers | |
Code 11 | Linear | Numbers | Variable |
Interleaved 2 from 5 | Linear | Numbers | Variable |
Industrial 2 from 5 | Linear | Numbers | Variable |
Codabar | Linear |
Numbers Symbols: - : . $ / + Start/Stop Characters: A, B, C, D, E, *, N, or T |
Variable |
Plessy | Linear | Numbers | Variable |
Code 3 of 9 | Linear | Uppercase letters Numbers Space - . $ / + % |
Variable |
Code 128 | Linear | All ASCII characters and control codes | Variable |
PDF417 | 2-D | ASCII characters | Up to 1850 ASCII or 2725 numeric characters |
DataMatrix | 2-D | All ASCII characters | Up to 2335 ASCII characters |
Future releases will add support for additional barcode types, such as PDF417.
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