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Mauro Carvalho Chehab edited this page May 23, 2019
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Welcome to the zbar wiki!
ZBar is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, including webcams. As its development stopped in 2012, I took the task of keeping it updated with the V4L2 API. This is the main repository for it. There's a clone at at LinuxTV.org, and another one at gitlab. https://linuxtv.org/downloads/zbar/
We just released today a new ZBar version. This time, the main features are:
- Support for Gtk3 (backward support with Gtk2 will be maintained.
- The Gtk3 feature is enabled with
./configure --with-gtk=gtk3
. - Autodetection with Gtk3 as default is enabled with:
./configure --with-gtk=auto
- The Gtk3 feature is enabled with
- Support for Python 3 (backward support with Python2 will be maintained);
- The Python 3 feature is enabled with
./configure --with-python=python3
. - Autodetection with Python 3 as default is enabled with:
./configure --with-python=auto
- A small test script that can be used as an example is provided. It runs with
make check-python
.
- The Python 3 feature is enabled with
- Support for ZBar Gtk GObject Introspection (GIR). That allows using ZBar Gtk3 widgets on any language that it is compatible with GIR, including python 2 and python 3.
- This feature is enabled by default (if the system has the needed dependencies).
- You can test this feature by building ZBar with Gtk3 and calling
make check-gi
.
Fedora 30 packages already available on our COPR site.
Now, for the people brave enough with uses Fedora, I created a new COPR repository there, with should track newest ZBar releases for older versions of Fedora. The repository is located at: