rxing - cRustacean Crossing

This is a port of the ZXing (https://github.com/zxing/zxing) java barcode library to pure rust. Conversion was done by hand. Original license resides with the authors of zxing.

Porting of the testing library is incomplete. Currently all positive tests are implemented. Negative verfication tests are not implemented.

Porting was done with the rust language in mind, though some parts may resemble java more directly than a proper clean-sheet rust implementation. The process of "rustifying" the code is ongoing.

CLI

If you're looking for a CLI interface into the library, please see rxing-cli.

WASM

If you're looking for a WASM version of this library, check out rxing-wasm, or on NPM.

Status

All barcode formats are tested and functioning in their current state against current tests.

Symbology	Status
aztec	complete
datamatrix	complete
maxicode	complete
pdf417	complete
qrcode	complete
coda	complete
code 39	complete
code 93	complete
code 128	complete
itf	complete
ean 8	complete
ean 13	complete
upc a	complete
upc e	complete

Feature Flags

The following feature flags are available:

• image: Enable features required for image manipulation and reading.

• allow_forced_iso_ied_18004_compliance: Allows the ability to force ISO/IED 18004 compliance. Leave disabled unless specificially needed.

• svg_write: Enable support for writing SVG files

• svg_read: Enable support for reading SVG files

• wasm_support: Make certain changes to support building this module in WASM

• experimental_features: Enable experimental features, risky.

• serde: Adds support for serde Serialize and Deserialize for outward facing structs

• otsu_level: Adds the otsu level binarizer.

  This is not used by any of the helper functions, you must specifically use it while setting up a new decoder. The OtsuLevelBinarizer is not well tested and it does not pass the current test suite. Consider this only if you know why you would want to use it. In many cases, the standard binarizer is likely better. If you have a very specific use case, and you know what your incoming data will resemble, you should consider implementing your own Binarizer and using that instead.

The default feature set includes only the image feature mentioned above.

Incomplete

The library has only been thurougly tested with the BufferedImageLuminanceSource source format. Using any other source is currently experimental and may result in unexpected or undefined outputs. This means that the feature flag used to enable the use of the image crate is currently on by default. Turning it off may result in unexpected results.

Example with helpers

use rxing;

fn main() {
    let file_name = "test_image.jpg";

    let results = rxing::helpers::detect_multiple_in_file(file_name).expect("decodes");

    for result in results {
        println!("{} -> {}", result.getBarcodeFormat(), result.getText())
    }
}

Latest Release Notes

• v0.2.21 -> Adds partial support for detecting and decoding rotated MaxiCode symbols. Adds support for basic serialization of many public facing datatypes using serde (gated behind serde feature).

  Rotation detection is no longer gated behind the experimental_features flag. Rotation of maxicodes is simplistic. Current tests detect about 50% of codes when rotated 90 degrees. Detection of skewed MaxiCodes is now behind experimental_features.

• v0.2.20 -> Adds rudimentary support for MaxiCode detection. The detector works best on unrotated images on a flat plane. Very basic support for rotation correction is gated behind the experimental_features flag, but it is not ready for most use cases. The MaxiCode detector is gated behind the TryHarder decoder hint, by default rxing uses the old PureBarcode implementation.

• v0.2.19 -> The datamatrix detector for the c++ version of zxing zxing-cpp has been ported. This features a dramatically different method of detecting datamatrix symbols. If you want to fallback to the original version, include the decode hint TRY_HARDER.

• v0.2.15 -> Support for reading and writing svg files through the feature flags svg_read and svg_write.

  These flags are off by default.

• v0.2.14 -> Support for more image output formats, many rustification changes to the codebase.

  If you were using very deep, specific functions in the encoder/decoder sections this may require a function rename. For instance qrcode::encoder::encoder is now qrcode::encoder::qrcode_encoder.

• v0.2.10 -> Fix major issue with qrcode generation.

• v0.2.9 -> Major fix, codabar was not being encoded by multiformat writer.

• v0.2.6 -> Fix missing result point callback for rss14

• v0.2.4 -> Add helper functions for common cases (read a file, use raw luma8 data).

• v0.2.3 -> Implement most suggestions from clippy, as well as some simple changes, no surface changes.

• v0.2.0 -> Dramatically improve performance when cropping a BufferedImageLuminanceSource.

• v0.1.4 -> Dramatically improve performance for MultiFormatReader and for multiple barcode detection.

Known Issues

• Performance is low for GenericMultipleBarcodeReader.
• Datamatrix codes are sometimes not correctly decoded, especially when they are actually pure barcodes. This appears to be an issue with zxing 3.5.1 as well.

ZXing Track

Currently tracking zxing 3.5.1

Copyright notes

The original license remains with the zxing developers. The license for the ported components of the c++ port remain with the developers of that port, where applicable.