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react-webcam-barcode-scanner
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A simple React Component using the client's webcam to read barcodes.
This is a simple barebones React component built in Typescript to provide a webcam-based barcode scanner using react-webcam and @zxing/library. This component works on Computers and Mobile Devices (iOS 11 and above and Android Phones).
npm i react-webcam-barcode-scanner
A demo of this can be found at: https://barcode.phdash.com.
import React from 'react';
import BarcodeScannerComponent from "react-webcam-barcode-scanner";
function App() {
const [ data, setData ] = React.useState('Not Found');
return (
<>
<BarcodeScannerComponent
width={500}
height={500}
onUpdate={(err, result) => {
if (result) setData(result.text)
else setData('Not Found')
}}
/>
<p>{data}</p>
</>
)
}
export default App;
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A simple React Component using the client's webcam to read barcodes.
We found that react-webcam-barcode-scanner demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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