shen-dynamsoft-javascript-codeparser
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Dynamsoft Code Parser JavaScript Edition is equipped with industry-leading algorithms for exceptional speed, accuracy in code parsing. With its well-designed API, you can equip your web page with a code parser by just adding a few lines of code. Once integrated, your users can open your website in a browser and parse codes to get readable information.
In this guide, you will learn step by step on how to integrate this library into your website.
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Let’s start with the "Hello World" example of the library which demonstrates how to use the minimum code to enable a web page to parse codes into readable info.
The complete code of the "Hello World" example is shown below:
Note：
Since the code that needs parsing is usually hard to understand and often comes from images, we choose an online image which contains a US driver license to demonstrate how to parse the code with the help of
BarcodeReader. Please make sure your device is Internet-connected when open the following example in browser.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/dynamsoft-javascript-barcode@9.0.2/dist/dbr.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/dynamsoft-javascript-codeparser@1.0.0/dist/dcp.js"></script>
<script>
// Specifies a license, you can visit https://www.dynamsoft.com/customer/license/trialLicense?ver=9.0.2&utm_source=guide&product=dbr&package=js to get your own trial license good for 30 days.
Dynamsoft.DBR.BarcodeReader.license = 't0068lQAAAAWk9rCg04e7MDgGn4AJN8BhCJrycXMZ/7/QCEJ+ujo4p3Qdrm0yeXgkbvg8pzKp6mHIeMt0zXSzXqCFT1zbi5U=';
Dynamsoft.DCP.CodeParser.license = 't0068lQAAALYEhtEBvMXXW/PQNyEwn0zwxU2eDrsWWkyVFnHbiQlE6VXULCiJA5B7kAYMJRlKL5N94Wi7R62CEiCgJnJsfNc=';
// Initializes and uses the library
(async () => {
try {
let reader = await Dynamsoft.DBR.BarcodeReader.createInstance();
let parser = await Dynamsoft.DCP.CodeParser.createInstance();
parser.setCodeFormat(Dynamsoft.DCP.EnumCodeFormat.CF_DL_AAMVA_ANSI);
// decode the driver license with BarcodeReader
let results = await reader.decode(
"https://pic1.zhimg.com/v2-8a34c05de1b63d093ad3e3b9b985b630_r.jpg");
var info = "";
for (let result of results) {
// input code which is the decoding result in number[] format
info = await parser.parseData(result.barcodeBytes);
// pop up the readable info
alert(JSON.stringify(info));
// see the readable info in console
console.log(info);
}
} catch (ex) {
alert(ex);
}
})();
</script>
</body>
</html>
license: This property specifies a license key. Note that the DCP license "t0068lQAAALYEhtEBvMXXW/PQNyEwn0zwxU2eDrsWWkyVFnHbiQlE6VXULCiJA5B7kAYMJRlKL5N94Wi7R62CEiCgJnJsfNc=" used in this example is an offline license. Read more on Specify the license.
createInstance(): This method creates a CodeParser object.
setCodeFormat: This method sets the code’s type before parsing.
parseData: This method parses code which could be number[], Uint8Array and string.
The simplest way to include the library is to use either the jsDelivr or UNPKG CDN. The "hello world" example above uses jsDelivr.
jsDelivr
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/dynamsoft-javascript-codeparser@1.0.0/dist/dcp.js"></script>
UNPKG
<script src="https://unpkg.com/dynamsoft-javascript-codeparser@1.0.0/dist/dcp.js"></script>
Besides using the CDN, you can also download the library and host its files on your own website / server before including it in your application.
Options to download the library:
yarn
yarn add dynamsoft-javascript-codeparser
npm
npm install dynamsoft-javascript-codeparser --save
Depending on how you downloaded the library and where you put it, you can typically include it like this:
<script src="/dynamsoft-codeparser-js-1.0.0/dist/dcp.js"></script>
or
<script src="/node_modules/dynamsoft-javascript-codeparser/dist/dcp.js"></script>
Refer to how to host the library.
Before using the library, you need to configure a few things.
The library requires a license to work, use the API license to specify a license key.
Dynamsoft.DCP.CodeParser.license = "YOUR-LICENSE-KEY";
Please Contact us via the customer portal if you want a DCP license.
If you registered a Dynamsoft account and downloaded the library from the official website, Dynamsoft will generate a 30-day trial license for you and put the license key into all the samples that come with the library.
This is usually only required with frameworks like Angular or React, etc. where dbr.js is compiled into another file.
The purpose is to tell the library where to find the engine files (*.worker.js, *.wasm.js and *.wasm, etc.). The API is called engineResourcePath:
//The following code uses the jsDelivr CDN, feel free to change it to your own location of these files
Dynamsoft.DCP.CodeParser.engineResourcePath = "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/dynamsoft-javascript-codeparser@1.0.0/dist/";
CodeParser objectTo use the library, we first create a CodeParser object.
Dynamsoft.DCP.CodeParser.license = "YOUR-LICENSE-KEY";
let parser = null;
try {
parser = await Dynamsoft.DCP.CodeParser.createInstance();
} catch (ex) {
console.error(ex);
}
Tip: When creating a CodeParser object within a function which may be called more than once, it’s best to use a “helper” variable to avoid double creation such as pParser in the following code
Dynamsoft.DCP.CodeParser.license = "YOUR-LICENSE-KEY";
let pParser = null;
try {
const parser = await (pParser = pParser || Dynamsoft.DCP.CodeParser.createInstance());
} catch (ex) {
console.error(ex);
}
Before parsing, it’s important to specify what kind of code you want to parse from. See EnumCodeFormat to check if DCP covers the code format you need.
parser.setCodeFormat(format); //format: EnumCodeFormat
The method parseData takes data in three formats: number[], Uint8Array, string. If you want to parse a barcode directly into readable info, you can use BarcodeReader or BarcodeScanner first to get its barcodeBytes and then use CodeParser to parse them.
parser.parseData(data); //data: number[] | Uint8Array | string
If the code you want to parse needs a public key or certificate to help parsing, please set it up before calling the parseData() method.
parser.setCryptoPublicKey(key); //key: string
// or
parser.setCertificate(value); //value: Uint8Array | ArrayBuffer | string
You can check out the detailed documentation about the APIs of the library at https://www.dynamsoft.com/code-parser/docs/programming/javascript/user-guide/?ver=latest.
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