[reportlab-users] pdf417 barcodes

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Wed Dec 31 13:40:55 EST 2008


Dinu Gherman wrote:

> Carl Karsten:

>

>> Andy Robinson:

>>>

>>

>>> Also, we only have a one-dimensional barcode reader. From ReportLab's

>>> end, we'd be happy to implement this (and DataMatrix too) if a

>>> customer is willing to pay the time costs, which are probably a couple

>>> of man-weeks. Various enterprise customers have enquired in the past

>>> but nobody has committed. Let us know if your employers need this

>>> badly enough ;-)

>>

>> Well, my employer is PyCon - last year we got inquiries if the

>> attendee name tags could be scanned. scanner rental is around $300, I

>> will be surprised if we get 10 rentals. so even if we mark up the

>> rental 100%, that only gives us 3k to work with. Any interest in a

>> booth at PyCon?

>

> I've done something like that for EuroPython 2008, or let's

> say I offered doing it, but people said for about 200 people

> the scanning wouldn't make much sense, which is mostly true.

>


How were you going to implement it?

I am trying out https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf417encode - I was able to
generate a .eps from the command line. I am hoping to get some python bindings
so that I don't have to mess with disk files.


> For PyCon US and the general fear level in the US that might

> be different. Here's a sample with the (not so meaningful)

> QR codes generated by an online service and added as bitmaps

> to the badges PDF file (in the end I made them much simpler):

>

> http://python.net/~gherman/tmp/badges.pdf


neat.

Can you post the code?

Carl K


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