The barcode scanner project, written in Cocoa, is for scanning barcodes on books, DVDs, CDs and video games as well as most other kind of EAN or UPC barcodes. It is part of our programs - DVDpedia, Bookpedia, CDpedia and Gamepedia - and is also used by Books. The code is available for free in the hopes that it'll be useful to other Mac developers. Of course it would be great if it were also improved with other developers' expertise and knowledge. The code has been updated to use the new QTKit capture framework, although the old sequence grabber code is kept for Tiger compatibility. Updated to work with the new high resolution built-in iSights. Leopard is now required to compile the program. We are offering a $500 reward as well as fame (your name in our credits) if you can improve the code to recognize barcodes by a noticeable difference. Especially the smaller DVD and CD type barcodes which are tough to decipher.
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