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pvanhelvoirt
Participant
July 10, 2014
Question

Read barcode or QR code inside image and save it in the file as metadata

  • July 10, 2014
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Maybe someone can help me with this question...

All product photos contain a barcode or QR-code. It is visible inside the image.

The customer is looking for a way (a plug-in) that is able to find the code inside the image, read it and place the information found in a preselected Metadata field of the image it self.

Can anyone tell me if this already exists or is there anyone who can develop it? If yes, than please let me know

Regards,

Pieter

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    Randydelafuente
    Participant
    November 11, 2015

    Hello!

    I came across this post and thought I would throw Snapizzi into the ring for you guys to consider. Using just a business card, and powered by patented technology, Snapizzi enables Event Photographers to quickly, and automatically, match customers to their photos. Check it out and please reach out to me with any questions or if I can help with anything else.

    Thank you!

    All the best,

    Randy dela Fuente

    Founder

    www.snapizzi.com

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    trailb45260103
    Participating Frequently
    April 29, 2015

    Would love to have this feature in LR.

    With facial recognition now featured, is this QR/barcode scanning not more of a possibility?

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    Dave Merchant
    Legend
    April 29, 2015

    QR code reading is a very obscure demand for a photo management application on a desktop machine, but it should be relatively simple for someone to write a plug-in if there's enough commercial interest. There are several open-source C libraries which will read QR codes from a bitmap - e.g. ZBar bar code reader - so the non-LR side of the workflow is already done.

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    jarnoh11691516
    Inspiring
    May 5, 2015

    That sounds really good, thanks Allen.

    I'll be very interested to see what you have created. 

    Will be in touch.

    Is this the best place to put feature requests to the Lightroom dev team, or do you know of any other places? 

    As an example of how I might use it, I have a street photography demonstration coming up, and if I could just photograph a subject with a qr / barcode in shot which the subject then keeps, then I can find their photograph from many hundreds taken and easily send them their image. 


    I created a barcode reader plugin couple of years ago, but I never released it and I guess it could also use some finishing touches.  Basically, it just  tried to decode the preview image and stores the decoded data as custom metadata.  This was actually a concept prototype built before building a face detection plugin, since the barcodes were supposedly easier than faces

    If anyone's interested in it, I can be reached at jarnoh@capturemonkey.com

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