> First, sorry for being off topic. I am looking for a royalty free component
> that can do barcode recognition on images in memory with out costing the earth.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

The one that I use came with the scanner. i.e. the scanner
outputs data rather than images.

What format of images are you thinking off and what bar
code. The 'algoithms' for doing the conversion are not
difficult if you have a clean bitmap. The clever bit that
the scanners do is scale for distance and scan rate. So
where are oyu wanting to use it?

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Lester Caine
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