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This is a python package to create and read barcodes You can create file-like objects, text files and images from just a barcode number. Image generation is fast so it can be used to create images in bulk.
More types will soon be supported. PRs are welcome :)
Python 3.9 or higher is required
To install the library you can run the following command:
.. code:: bash
pip install pybarcodes
You can see what barcodes are supported
.. code:: py
>>> import pybarcodes
>>> pybarcodes.SUPPORTED_BARCODES
['EAN13', 'EAN8', 'EAN14', 'JAN', 'CODE39']
And you can use this to view the barcode that was generated:
.. code:: py
from pybarcodes import EAN13
CODE = "012345678905"
barcode = EAN13(CODE)
barcode.show()
This is pretty much all the code you need to generate a barcode.
Saving an image of the barcode is pretty straightforward.
.. code:: py
from pybarcodes import EAN14
barcode = EAN14("40700719670720")
# Saves the image in PNG format
barcode.save("myimage.png")
# You can also resize it.
barcode.save("myimage2.png", size=(100000, 1000000))
EAN13 output from example 2:
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A Python package for barcode generation
We found that pybarcodes demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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