VBA / Adobe / Barcodes

[CedarTree]

Anyone have luck reading a bar code into a database, from a PDF? Suggested approaches? Thanks!

 

[theDBguy]

Without using a barcode scanner?

 

[Minty]

With or without a scanner?
With one - it will depend on the quality of the pdf image and quality of the monitor it is being displayed on.
If the definition between the barcode lines isn't good enough the barcode reader will struggle

 

[CedarTree]

These would be already scanned PDFs that would be provided to me. My experience with Adobe and VBA has primarily been around letting Adobe do an OCR on files, and then reading in words on a page. But isn't a bar-code basically just a very funny font? So I thought there might be some tricks in that avenue, and/or maybe I need to use an add-in that can visually read a bar-code?

 

[CedarTree]

And/or, if using a scanner is the ONLY way to go, how does that work? Thanks.

 

[bastanu]

See if these links help:
https://online-barcode-reader.inliteresearch.com/

Free Barcode Scanner | Cognex

The Free Scanner below is also available for commercial licensing as the Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK. Enable enterprise-grade barcode scanning to your applications and websites.

manateeworks.com

Cheers,
Vlad

 

[isladogs]

Barcodes are special fonts so if you know which barcode font was used, e.g. Code 39, you could in theory extract the data without a barcode scanner.
However as scanners are designed to read a variety of barcode fonts, it would make your task much easier