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Re:Pure JS OCR via Emscripten by SunboX on Thursday January 02, 2014 @06:36AM (#6999146)
If we are on optical recognition, did someone try compiling ZBar [1] to JavaScript? I did it but failed to get it reading canvas pixels. :/

[1] http://zbar.sourceforge.net/

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Re:Pure JS OCR via Emscripten by jankey on Thursday January 02, 2014 @09:23AM (#6999658)
Try https://github.com/LazarSoft/jsqrcode...
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Re:Pure JS OCR via Emscripten by SunboX on Thursday January 02, 2014 @10:20AM (#6999936)
It's only a QR-Code reader ;) ZBar supports all kind of Barcodes. But this one seems interesting:

https://github.com/EddieLa/BarcodeReader

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