Locating and decoding EAN-13 barcodes from images captured by digital cameras

Authors

D. Chai, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
F. Hock, Edith Cowan University

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

IEEE

School

School of Engineering and Mathematics

RAS ID

3641

Comments

Chai, D., & Hock, F. (2005). Locating and decoding EAN-13 barcodes from images captured by digital cameras. The proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing. (pp 1556 - 1560). Thailand. Original paper is available here

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a vision-based technique to locate and decode EAN-13 barcodes from images captured by digital cameras. The ultimate aim of our approach is to enable electronic devices with cameras such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) to act as a barcode reader.