Barcode Recognition

[Rob Cowie]

I'd like to be able to take a bitmapped image and identify and decode
any barcodes present within it.

Does anyone know of an existing module for accomplishing this task? Is
there any effort to add this functionality to the Python Imaging
Library?

Can anyone give me an idea of how diffucult an undertaking this is for
someone with no image processing experience?

Cheers,

Rob Cowie