Change the length of barcodes to decode

Motivation

By default the Scandit Barcode Scanner scans barcodes with a fixed symbol count range. Under certain conditions it is helpful to modify the length of the barcode to be decoded, for example if

  • you want to scan longer codes which cannot be decoded with the default settings.
  • to optimize decoder performance for codes of certain lengths when the application only requires scanning particular barcode lengths.

The active symbol count setting is ignored for fixed-size barcodes (EAN and UPC barcodes) as well as 2d codes.

Change the barcode length

To know the symbol count of a barcode, you can either:

Changing the length of the barcodes is done through setActiveSymbolCounts() on the symbology settings object. Following an example of changing for Code 128 barcodes the symbol count range (7-20).

SymbologySettings symSettings = settings.getSymbologySettings(Barcode.SYMBOLOGY_CODE128);
short[] activeSymbolCounts = new short[] {
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
};
symSettings.setActiveSymbolCounts(activeSymbolCounts);

Available since SDK version 4.9.0.