Python barcode decoding

[Kirk Strauser]

At 2008-10-24T17:05:25Z, Robocop <bthayre at physics.ucsd.edu> writes:

> Does anyone know of any decent (open source or commercial) python
> barcode recognition tools or libraries.  I need to read barcodes from
> pdfs or images, so it will involve some OCR algorithm.  I also only
> need to read the code 93 symbology, so it doesn't have to be very
> fancy.  The most important thing to me is that it outputs in some
> python friendly way, or ideally that it is written in python.  Any
> tips would be great!

How precise are these images?  I mean, are they computer-generated, or
scanned in from other material?

If they're nice and crisp, I wrote a simple and pretty quick decoder at 
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Daycos/1.0 .  Look in the
Daycos.Imageproc.Barcode module.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
The Day Companies