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Welcome to the zbar wiki!

ZBar is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, including webcams. As its development stopped in 2012, I took the task of keeping it updated with the V4L2 API. This is the main repository for it. There's a clone at at LinuxTV.org, and another one at gitlab. https://linuxtv.org/downloads/zbar/

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ZBar 0.23

We're about to launch a new ZBar version. This time, the main features are:

• Support for Gtk3 (backward support with Gtk2 will be maintained;
• Support for Python 3 (backward support with Python2 will be maintained;
• Support for ZBar Gtk GObject Introspection (GIR). That allows using ZBar Gtk3 widgets on any language that it is compatible with GIR, including python 2 and python 3.

ZBar Fedora COPR packages

Now, for the people brave enough with uses Fedora, I created a new COPR repository there, with should track newest ZBar releases for older versions of Fedora. The repository is located at:

• https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mchehab/ZBar/