At 12:15 PM 12/30/00 +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> >Hmm.  It's getting to be a little surprising that no one has done a
> >barcode scanner based on a cheap CMOS image sensor...
>
>And I am surprized people ask such things. The image processing is not
>trivial at all and it requires hundreds of hours of real life testing to
>even out the bugs. And it cannot be done in a PIC. It is done in the host
>computer. I think that the recognition rate acceptable in grocery/etc use
>is 95%. This is HARD to do using image recognition alone.

I'm seriously interested in this.
I've done it several times with "light pen" input, with no problems.
Do you have pointers to information, or details on the sensors?
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