VintaSoftBarcode.NET SDK is the professional .NET barcode reader and barcode generator component for software developer. It recognizes and writes 1D & 2D barcodes in digital images and PDF.

3 editions of Barcode .NET SDK available to be licensed: Standard edition, Standard + WPF edition or Silverlight edition.

Features:

• Programming environments: .NET Framework 2.0 or higher, WPF 3.5 or higher, Silverlight 4.0
• This is a fully-managed .NET library to guarantee the fast working in .NET Framework
• You can use this library in your programs written in any programming language compatible with .NET technology
• Generate a barcode in both Image and Vector form
• Create a barcode image with specified size and resolution
• Create custom barcode writer control or use available standard .NET, WPF or Silverlight barcode control
• Plenty of optional barcode writer settings give you complete control over .NET barcode printing
• Supports multi-threading in barcode reader
• Recognizes barcodes from image object, image file, image stream or image resources of PDF document
• Recognizes all barcodes anywhere from entire image or from a region of interest
• Identifies the type of recognized barcode
• Returns the string value of recognized barcode
• Returns a confidence value for each of recognized barcodes
• Detects the orientation of recognized barcode automatically
• Returns coordinates of the recognized barcode bounding rectangle
• Read and write non-data flags (FNC1, ECI, Structure Append ...) in some barcodes
• Serialize and deserialize barcode reader and writer settings to XML file
• Reed-Solomon error correction algorithm fixes damaged Aztec, Data Matrix, Maxicode, Micro QR Code, PDF417 and QR Code barcode during .NET barcode recognition
• Provides advanced document cleanup functions to improve barcode recognition in .NET
• Supports ISO/IEC 15415 barcode printing quality test for Aztec, DataMatrix and QR Code barcodes

Table 1. Difference between .NET, WPF and Silverlight Barcode DLL:

Supported 1D (linear) barcode types:

• Code 11 (read & write)
• Code 39, Code 39 Extended (read & write)
• Code 93 (read & write)
• Code 128, UCC/EAN-128, GS1-128 (read & write)
• Codabar (read & write)
• EAN-8, EAN-8 +2, EAN-8 +5 (read & write)
• EAN-13, EAN-13 +2, EAN-13 +5 (read & write)
• ISBN, ISBN +2, ISBN +5 (read & write)
• ISMN, ISMN +2, ISMN +5 (read & write)
• ISSN, ISSN +2, ISSN +5 (read & write)
• Industrial standard 2 of 5 (read & write)
• Interleaved 2 of 5 (read & write)
• Laetus Pharmacode (read & write)
• MSI modified Plessey (read & write)
• Patch code (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, T) (read & write)
• RSS-14 / GS1 DataBar Omnidirectional (read & write)
• RSS-14 Truncated / GS1 DataBar Truncated (read & write)
• RSS-14 Stacked / GS1 DataBar Stacked (read & write)
• RSS-14 Stacked Omnidirectional / GS1 DataBar Stacked Omnidirectional (read & write)
• RSS Limited / GS1 DataBar Limited (read & write)
• RSS Expanded / GS1 DataBar Expanded (read & write)
• RSS Expanded Stacked (2-11rows) / GS1 DataBar Expanded Stacked (read & write)
• Telepen (read & write)
• UPC-A, UPC-A +2, UPC-A +5 (read & write)
• UPC-E, UPC-E +2, UPC-E +5 (read & write)

Supported Postal barcode types:

• Australian Post (read & write)
• Intelligent Mail (read & write)
• Royal Mail / RM4SCC (read & write)
• Planet (read & write)
• Postnet (read & write)

Supported 2D barcode types:

• Aztec (read & write)
• Data Matrix, GS1 DataMatrix (read & write)
• MaxiCode (read & write)
• PDF417, PDF417 Compact (read & write)
• QR Code (read & write)
• Micro QR Code (read & write)

System requirements:

Windows OS / .NET Framework / Microsoft Visual Studio .NET / Internet Explorer

Supported operating systems:

• Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8, 32-bit / 64-bit
• Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2012, 32-bit / 64-bit

Supported frameworks:

• .NET 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5 / 4.0 / 4.5
• WPF 3.5 / 4.0
• Silverlight 4.0

Development environments VintaSoft Barcode .NET SDK was tested in and has examples of use for:

• MS Visual Basic .NET 2005 / 2008 / 2010 / 2012
• MS Visual C# 2005 / 2008 / 2010 / 2012
• MS ASP.NET 2005 / 2008 / 2010 / 2012
• MS Office SharePoint Server 2007