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scan barcode from TIFF

31. July 2010 09:25 by Jerry in Cool stuff

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/graphics/BarcodeImaging3.aspx

The ariticle above is really something awesome, you may easily scan barcode in an image, pure managed code. It supports Code39, Code39ex, Code128, EAN, EAN-2, EAN-5.

Together with below utility class, I used it in an application to scan barcode from tiff

[code language=C#]

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;  
using System.Collections;

namespace AMA.Util
{
 /// <summary>
 /// Summary description for TiffManager.
 /// </summary>
 public class TiffManager : IDisposable
 {
  private string _ImageFileName;
  private int _PageNumber;
  private Image image;
  private string _TempWorkingDir;

  public TiffManager(string imageFileName)
  {
   this._ImageFileName=imageFileName;
   image=Image.FromFile(_ImageFileName);
   GetPageNumber();
  }
  
  public TiffManager(){
  }

  /// <summary>
  /// Read the image file for the page number.
  /// </summary>
  private void GetPageNumber(){
   Guid objGuid=image.FrameDimensionsList[0];
   FrameDimension objDimension=new FrameDimension(objGuid);

   //Gets the total number of frames in the .tiff file
   _PageNumber=image.GetFrameCount(objDimension);
   
   return;
  }

  /// <summary>
  /// Read the image base string,
  /// Assert(GetFileNameStartString(@"c:\test\abc.tif"),"abc")
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="strFullName"></param>
  /// <returns></returns>
  private string GetFileNameStartString(string strFullName){
   int posDot=_ImageFileName.LastIndexOf(".");
   int posSlash=_ImageFileName.LastIndexOf(@"\");
   return _ImageFileName.Substring(posSlash+1,posDot-posSlash-1);
  }

  /// <summary>
  /// This function will output the image to a TIFF file with specific compression format
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="outPutDirectory">The splited images' directory</param>
  /// <param name="format">The codec for compressing</param>
  /// <returns>splited file name array list</returns>
  public ArrayList SplitTiffImage(string outPutDirectory,EncoderValue format)
  {
   string fileStartString=outPutDirectory+"\\"+GetFileNameStartString(_ImageFileName);
   ArrayList splitedFileNames=new ArrayList();
   try{
    Guid objGuid=image.FrameDimensionsList[0];
    FrameDimension objDimension=new FrameDimension(objGuid);

    //Saves every frame as a separate file.
    Encoder enc=Encoder.Compression;
    int curFrame=0;
    for (int i=0;i<_PageNumber;i++)
    {
     image.SelectActiveFrame(objDimension,curFrame);
     EncoderParameters ep=new EncoderParameters(1);
     ep.Param[0]=new EncoderParameter(enc,(long)format);
     ImageCodecInfo info=GetEncoderInfo("image/tiff");
     
     //Save the master bitmap
     string fileName=string.Format("{0}{1}.TIF",fileStartString,i.ToString());
     image.Save(fileName,info,ep);
     splitedFileNames.Add(fileName);

     curFrame++;
    } 
   }catch (Exception){
    throw;
   }
   
   return splitedFileNames;
  }

  /// <summary>
  /// This function will join the TIFF file with a specific compression format
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="imageFiles">string array with source image files</param>
  /// <param name="outFile">target TIFF file to be produced</param>
  /// <param name="compressEncoder">compression codec enum</param>
  public void JoinTiffImages(string[] imageFiles,string outFile,EncoderValue compressEncoder)
  {
   try{
    //If only one page in the collection, copy it directly to the target file.
    if (imageFiles.Length==1)
    {
     File.Copy(imageFiles[0],outFile,true);
     return;
    }

    //use the save encoder
    Encoder enc=Encoder.SaveFlag;

    EncoderParameters ep=new EncoderParameters(2);
    ep.Param[0]=new EncoderParameter(enc,(long)EncoderValue.MultiFrame);
    ep.Param[1] = new EncoderParameter(Encoder.Compression,(long)compressEncoder);

    Bitmap pages=null;
    int frame=0;
    ImageCodecInfo info=GetEncoderInfo("image/tiff");


    foreach(string strImageFile in imageFiles)
    {
     if(frame==0)
     {
      pages=(Bitmap)Image.FromFile(strImageFile);

      //save the first frame
      pages.Save(outFile,info,ep);
     }
     else
     {
      //save the intermediate frames
      ep.Param[0]=new EncoderParameter(enc,(long)EncoderValue.FrameDimensionPage);

      Bitmap bm=(Bitmap)Image.FromFile(strImageFile);
      pages.SaveAdd(bm,ep);
     }       

     if(frame==imageFiles.Length-1)
     {
      //flush and close.
      ep.Param[0]=new EncoderParameter(enc,(long)EncoderValue.Flush);
      pages.SaveAdd(ep);
     }

     frame++;
    }
   }catch (Exception){
    throw;
   }
   
   return;
  }

  /// <summary>
  /// This function will join the TIFF file with a specific compression format
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="imageFiles">array list with source image files</param>
  /// <param name="outFile">target TIFF file to be produced</param>
  /// <param name="compressEncoder">compression codec enum</param>
  public void JoinTiffImages(ArrayList imageFiles,string outFile,EncoderValue compressEncoder)
  {
   try
   {
    //If only one page in the collection, copy it directly to the target file.
    if (imageFiles.Count==1){
     File.Copy((string)imageFiles[0],outFile,true);
     return;
    }

    //use the save encoder
    Encoder enc=Encoder.SaveFlag;

    EncoderParameters ep=new EncoderParameters(2);
    ep.Param[0]=new EncoderParameter(enc,(long)EncoderValue.MultiFrame);
    ep.Param[1] = new EncoderParameter(Encoder.Compression,(long)compressEncoder);

    Bitmap pages=null;
    int frame=0;
    ImageCodecInfo info=GetEncoderInfo("image/tiff");


    foreach(string strImageFile in imageFiles)
    {
     if(frame==0)
     {
      pages=(Bitmap)Image.FromFile(strImageFile);

      //save the first frame
      pages.Save(outFile,info,ep);
     }
     else
     {
      //save the intermediate frames
      ep.Param[0]=new EncoderParameter(enc,(long)EncoderValue.FrameDimensionPage);

      Bitmap bm=(Bitmap)Image.FromFile(strImageFile);
      pages.SaveAdd(bm,ep);
      bm.Dispose();
     }       

     if(frame==imageFiles.Count-1)
     {
      //flush and close.
      ep.Param[0]=new EncoderParameter(enc,(long)EncoderValue.Flush);
      pages.SaveAdd(ep);
     }

     frame++;
    }
   }
   catch (Exception ex)
   {
#if DEBUG
    Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
#endif
    throw;
   }
   
   return;
  }

  /// <summary>
  /// Remove a specific page within the image object and save the result to an output image file.
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="pageNumber">page number to be removed</param>
  /// <param name="compressEncoder">compress encoder after operation</param>
  /// <param name="strFileName">filename to be outputed</param>
  /// <returns></</returns>
  public void RemoveAPage(int pageNumber,EncoderValue compressEncoder,string strFileName){
   try
   {
    //Split the image files to single pages.
    ArrayList arrSplited=SplitTiffImage(this._TempWorkingDir,compressEncoder);
    
    //Remove the specific page from the collection
    string strPageRemove=string.Format("{0}\\{1}{2}.TIF",_TempWorkingDir,GetFileNameStartString(this._ImageFileName),pageNumber);
    arrSplited.Remove(strPageRemove);

    JoinTiffImages(arrSplited,strFileName,compressEncoder);
   }
   catch(Exception)
   {
    throw;
   }

   return;
  }

  /// <summary>
  /// Getting the supported codec info.
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="mimeType">description of mime type</param>
  /// <returns>image codec info</returns>
  private ImageCodecInfo GetEncoderInfo(string mimeType){
   ImageCodecInfo[] encoders=ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders();
   for (int j=0;j<encoders.Length;j++){
    if (encoders[j].MimeType==mimeType)
     return encoders[j];
   }
   
   throw new Exception( mimeType + " mime type not found in ImageCodecInfo" );
  }

  /// <summary>
  /// Return the memory steam of a specific page
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="pageNumber">page number to be extracted</param>
  /// <returns>image object</returns>
  public Image GetSpecificPage(int pageNumber)
  {
   MemoryStream ms=null;
   Image retImage=null;
   try
   {
                ms=new MemoryStream();
    Guid objGuid=image.FrameDimensionsList[0];
    FrameDimension objDimension=new FrameDimension(objGuid);

    image.SelectActiveFrame(objDimension,pageNumber);
    image.Save(ms,ImageFormat.Bmp);
    
    retImage=Image.FromStream(ms);

    return retImage;
   }
   catch (Exception)
   {
    ms.Close();
    retImage.Dispose();
    throw;
   }
  }

  /// <summary>
  /// Convert the existing TIFF to a different codec format
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="compressEncoder"></param>
  /// <returns></returns>
  public void ConvertTiffFormat(string strNewImageFileName,EncoderValue compressEncoder)
  {
   //Split the image files to single pages.
   ArrayList arrSplited=SplitTiffImage(this._TempWorkingDir,compressEncoder);
   JoinTiffImages(arrSplited,strNewImageFileName,compressEncoder);

   return;
  }

  /// <summary>
  /// Image file to operate
  /// </summary>
  public string ImageFileName
  {
   get
   {
    return _ImageFileName;
   }
   set{
    _ImageFileName=value;
   }
  }

  /// <summary>
  /// Buffering directory
  /// </summary>
  public string TempWorkingDir
  {
   get
   {
    return _TempWorkingDir;
   }
   set{
    _TempWorkingDir=value;
   }
  }

  /// <summary>
  /// Image page number
  /// </summary>
  public int PageNumber
  {
   get
   {
    return _PageNumber;
   }
  }

 
  #region IDisposable Members

  public void Dispose()
  {
   image.Dispose();
   System.GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
  }

  #endregion
 }
}

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