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Great idea! I am not so sure about the business model though. With WASM and cross compiling it seems this _could_ be a fairly simple thing to develop these day
by macinjosh 3y ago
Great idea!
I am not so sure about the business model though. With WASM and cross compiling it seems this _could_ be a fairly simple thing to develop these days. Though I could be completely missing the value add or the complexity of the problem. The need for tracking for licensing purposes seems anachronistic and probably easily hacked around. I would expect to see open source competitors offering a free library that does this at some point.
- alex_suzuki 3y agoHey, that's what I initially thought as well! Turns out 1D/2D barcode scanning is a surprisingly involved topic, with tons of research papers. It's a topic with both depth (like advanced recognition techniques for certain types of codes) and breadth (wide variety of code types). As mentioned, there are several OSS competitors, mainly QuaggaJS and ZXing which is at the core of some wrappers like JsQRScanner or HTML5QRCode.