pyzxing 1.1.1
Python wrapper for ZXing Java library.
License: MIT
Requires Python: >=3.8.0

# pyzxing

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## First GA

After a year of development, the first General Availability of pyzxing is finally released. I would like to express my
gratitude to all the developers for their suggestions and issue, which helped the development of this project to a great
extent. This project will continue to be open source and updated regularly.

## Introduction

A Python wrapper of [ZXing library](https://github.com/zxing/zxing). python-zxing does not work properly and is out of
maintenance. So I decide to create this repository so that Pythoneers can take advantage of ZXing library with minimum
effort.

## Features

- Super easy to get hands on decoding qrcode with Python
- Structured outputs
- Scan multiple barcodes in one picture
- Scan multiple pictures in parallel, which speeds up 77%

## Installation

Installing from [Github source](https://github.com/ChenjieXu/pyzxing.git) is recommended :

```bash
git clone https://github.com/ChenjieXu/pyzxing.git
cd pyzxing
python setup.py install
```

It is also possible to install from [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/pyzxing/):

```bash
pip install pyzxing
```

Install from [Anaconda](https://anaconda.org/ChenjieXu/pyzxing). Now available on the public channel, conda-forge:

```bash
conda install pyzxing # conda-forge channel
conda install -c chenjiexu pyzxing # private channel
```

## Build ZXing Library

A ready-to-go jar file is available with release, but I can not guarantee that this file will work properly on your PC.
You may run test script before building ZXing. Pyzxing will download compiled Jar file automatically and call unit test.
For those who haven't installed Java, I strongly recommend you to install openjdk8.

```bash
python -m unittest tests.test_decode
```

If failed, build ZXing using following commands.

```bash
git submodule init
git submodule update
cd zxing
mvn install -DskipTests
cd javase
mvn -DskipTests package assembly:single
```

## Quick Start

```python
from pyzxing import BarCodeReader

reader = BarCodeReader()
results = reader.decode('/PATH/TO/FILE')
# Or file pattern for multiple files
results = reader.decode('/PATH/TO/FILES/*.png')
print(results)
# Or a numpy array
# Requires additional installation of opencv
# pip install opencv-python
results = reader.decode_array(img)
```

Or you may simply call it from command line

```bash
python scripts/scanner.py -f /PATH/TO/FILE
```
# TODO

- [ ] Fix setup.py

- [ ] Add multi and pure_barcode into parameters to resolve #25

- [ ] Change Travis CI to GitHub Action