Identify Parsed Barcodes
A barcode is a method of representing machine-readable images consisting of black and white bars. Barcodes can identify the country of origin of the manufacturing company, but may not indicate where the product is made. The Barcode Detection API does not provide an overlay feature. Therefore, a custom overlay will be implemented to display a rectangle and the detected barcode next to it.
In a 1D barcode, data is scanned in a linear sequence using a series of vertical lines and spaces of varying widths to encode data. There are many different types of 2D barcodes such as QR code and Aztec code. QR codes are matrix barcodes that can contain alphanumeric and binary data. A popular use of QR codes is to share a link to a website for people with mobile devices. A popular use for scanning barcodes is to find the original country where the product was made.
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