How To Build A Powerful Document Imaging Workflow

Integrating ImageGear Professional and Barcode Xpress

Barcode indexing is a common step in most electronic document workflows. Document retrieval requires the ability to scan a page for the presence of barcodes and then return the value of each barcode on the page. By combining the power of ImageGear and Barcode Xpress, application developers have the ability to open 100 different document image formats and then recognize and decode any 1D or 2D barcode found in the document. The remainder of this document describes how to pass image data from ImageGear Professional to Barcode Xpress and then return the values of any barcodes found on the page.

Sample Code Introduction

This whitepaper tutorial uses the sample code in the “Getting Started” section of the ImageGear Professional help file as a starting point. ImageGear Professional is a very powerful tool that is capable of working with many types of files and compression techniques. These capabilities are not always active; rather, ImageGear uses a modular system to allow developers to only utilize the capabilities needed for their particular application. The goal of this whitepaper is to provide a basic introduction to using Barcode Xpress in conjunction with ImageGear Professional. Therefore we will not add any additional ImageGear modules, so certain image formats may not open with the sample code. The onOpenDocument() function will inform the user when a file was unable to be opened.

To begin the tutorial, download this white paper at the link below.