C# ISSN Reader Library
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C#.NET ISSN Barcode Reading Library

RasterEdge DocImage SDK for .NET includes several mature & advanced imaging library dlls, which can be used as independent controls. For example, working with RasterEdge's core imaging library, this barcode reader control can easily decode & read ISSN barcode from rich raster image file formats. Along with PDF document controlling library, this barcode reader control can apply ISSN barcode reading effect to C#.NET PDF document processing projects. Coupled with Word editing library, this barcode scanner control can scan ISSN barcode from Word page using C# code. This barcode reader control can also be used to decode ISSN barcode from Excel and PowerPoint documents.

Different from other barcode reading control on the market, our ISSN barcode scanning library allows users to detect & read ISSN barcode from any defined area instead of the default whole page.

This C#.NET barcode reader SDK can easily & quickly decode ISSN barcode with add-on digits. Besides, other linear barcodes with add-on digits are also supported by this barcode scanning control, like UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8 & ISBN. Besides, if you want to know step-to-step tutorial: barcode reading & recognition from single-page or multi-page tiff using C# code, please follow this link.

C#.NET ISSN Reading Control Features

Detect orientation of scanned ISSN barcode automatically from image files using C#

Integrated with PDF controlling library to scan ISSN barcode from PDF document in C#

Work with Word processing dll to read ISSN barcode from Word page using C#.NET

Scan ISSN barcode from Excel or PowerPoint document using C#.NET programming easily

Read checksum digit & supplemental digits of ISSN from document image automatically in C#

Specify an area in the source document or image to scan & decode ISSN barcode using C#.NET

Used as independent library alongside core imaging dlls of RasterEdge DocImage SDK for .NET

Detect & recognize ISSN barcode from document images in both Web & Windows Forms projects

Steps to Read/Scan Data Matrix from Image/PDF/TIFF/Office File

Load an image or a document(PDF, TIFF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Get a Bitmap or BasePage used to decode or read barcode.

Set the barcode reader settings.

Call the following static method in BarcodeReader.cs to read or scan barcode from Bitmap or BasePage.

  public static Barcode[] ReadBarcodes(ReaderSettings settings, BasePage page)

  public static Barcode[] ReadBarcodes(ReaderSettings settings, Bitmap image)

The barcode information will be saved in the array of Barcode object. While, if you read barcodes information from the BasePage failed, you can try as follows:

  Convert BasePage to Bitmap with higher resolution by Calling method ConvertToImage(int resolution) in the BasePage.cs:

            //Convert page to bitmap.
            //The default resolution is 96, if youo set the resolution higher, it will be better to read or scan barcode.
            Bitmap bmp = page.ConvertToImage(192);

            //  read all barcodes in the page
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(settings, bmp);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Data: " + barcode.DataString);
            }

If you want to have a try, please refer to the following demo codes.

Note: When you get the error "Could not load file or assembly 'RasterEdge.Imaging.Basic' or any other assembly or one of its dependencies. An attempt to load a program with an incorrect format", please check your configure as follows:

       If you are using x64 libraries/dlls, Right click the project -> Properties -> Build -> Platform target: x64.

       If using x86, the platform target should be x86.

C# Code for ISSN Reading from Images

This barcode reader add-on from RasterEdge DocImage SDK for .NET supports ISSN barcode reading & decoding from image file formats like PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, and JPEG. Here we take ISSN barcode recognition from png and tiff source files as examples. Using the sample C# code below, you can read & decode all ISSN barcodes by scanning the whole png image files.

Note: this .NET barcode reader add-on supports X and Y location. Thus, you can direct the barcode scanner to detect ISSN barcode in a specified area using C# code.

Add necessary references to your C#.NET project. Right-click the project and select "Add Reference..." to locate and add the following DLLs as project references;

  RasterEdge.Imaging.Basic.dll

  RasterEdge.XImage.BarcodeScanner.dll

Use corresponding namespaces;

  using RasterEdge.XImage.BarcodeScanner;

            Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(inputDirectory + "Sample_Barcode.png");
            //  config reader setting
            ReaderSettings settings = new ReaderSettings();
            //  define the type of barcode to scan
            settings.AddTypesToRead(BarcodeType.ISSN);

            //  read all barcodes in the document
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(settings, bmp);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Data: " + barcode.DataString);
            }

C#: DLLs for ISSN Barcode Scanning from Document(TIFF, PDF, Office)

In order to run the following demo codes reading ISSN from document, the steps as follows are necessary.

Add references:

  RasterEdge.Imaging.Basic.dll

  RasterEdge.Imaging.Basic.Codec.dll

  RasterEdge.Imaging.Processing.dll

  RasterEdge.Imaging.Font.dll

  RasterEdge.Imaging.Drawing.dll

  RasterEdge.XImage.BarcodeScanner.dll

  RasterEdge.XImage.Raster.Core.dll

  RasterEdge.XImage.Raster.dll

Use corresponding namespaces;

  using RasterEdge.XImage.BarcodeScanner;

  using RasterEdge.Imaging.Basic;

C# Code to Decode ISSN from TIFF Image File

Following C# sample code allows users to read ISSN barcodes from TIFF image with RasterEdge .NET Barcode Reader.

Add references(Extra):

  RasterEdge.XDoc.TIFF.dll

Use corresponding namespaces(Extra):

  using RasterEdge.XDoc.TIFF;

            // load TIFF document
            TIFFDocument doc = new TIFFDocument(inputDirectory + "Sample_Barcode.tif");

            // get the page you want to scan
            BasePage page = doc.GetPage(0);

            // set reader setting
            ReaderSettings setting = new ReaderSettings();

            // set type to read
            setting.AddTypesToRead(BarcodeType.ISSN);

            // read barcode from tiff page
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(setting, page);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                // print the loaction of barcode on image
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.BoundingRectangle.X + "  " + barcode.BoundingRectangle.Y);

                // output barcode data onto screen 
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.DataString);
            }

Demo C# Code to Scan ISSN from PDF

To read ISSN barcode from a PDF page, you have to rasterize the page to a single image. Thus, in the following demo C# code, we firstly convert a scanned PDF page into a high-resolution image file using our PDF processing library. Then this barcode reader control will detect & scan ISSN barcode from rasterized image file using C# code and return the string value of each ISSN barcode it has just recognized.

Add references(Extra):

  RasterEdge.XDoc.PDF.dll

Use corresponding namespaces(Extra):

  using RasterEdge.XDoc.PDF;

            // load PDF document
            PDFDocument doc = new PDFDocument(inputDirectory + "Sample_Barcode.pdf");

            // get the page you want to scan
            BasePage page = doc.GetPage(0);

            // set reader setting
            ReaderSettings setting = new ReaderSettings();

            // set type to read
            setting.AddTypesToRead(BarcodeType.ISSN);

            // read barcode from PDF page
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(setting, page);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                // print the loaction of barcode on image
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.BoundingRectangle.X + "  " + barcode.BoundingRectangle.Y);

                // output barcode data onto screen 
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.DataString);
            }

Detect & Decode ISSN from Word in C#

Similarly, ISSN barcode recognition from Word should start with Word page rasterization. After converting a Word page into a raster image file using our Word document controlling library, you can direct this C#.NET barcode reader to scan & decode ISSN barcode from a whole image zone or from just defined scanning area.

Add references(Extra):

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Word.dll

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Office.Inner.Common.dll

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Office.Inner.Office03.dll

Use corresponding namespaces(Extra):

  using RasterEdge.XDoc.Word;

            // load Word document
            DOCXDocument doc = new DOCXDocument(inputDirectory + "Sample_Barcode.docx");

            // get the page you want to scan
            BasePage page = doc.GetPage(0);

            // set reader setting
            ReaderSettings setting = new ReaderSettings();

            // set type to read
            setting.AddTypesToRead(BarcodeType.ISSN);

            // read barcode from Word page
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(setting, page);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                // print the loaction of barcode on image
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.BoundingRectangle.X + "  " + barcode.BoundingRectangle.Y);

                // output barcode data onto screen 
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.DataString);
            }

Scan ISSN Barcode from Excel Using C#.NET

The following C#.NET demo code is provided to help you scan ISSN barcode from your Excel document in an easy way.

Add references(Extra):

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Excel.dll

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Office.Inner.Common.dll

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Office.Inner.Office03.dll

Use corresponding namespaces(Extra):

  using RasterEdge.XDoc.Excel;

            // load Excel document
            XLSXDocument doc = new XLSXDocument(inputDirectory + "Sample_Barcode.xlsx");

            // get the page you want to scan
            BasePage page = doc.GetPage(0);

            // set reader setting
            ReaderSettings setting = new ReaderSettings();

            // set type to read
            setting.AddTypesToRead(BarcodeType.ISSN);

            // read barcode from Excel page
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(setting, page);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                // print the loaction of barcode on image
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.BoundingRectangle.X + "  " + barcode.BoundingRectangle.Y);

                // output barcode data onto screen 
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.DataString);
            }

Read ISSN Barcode from PowerPoint in C# Class

Reading ISSN barcode from PowerPoint slide with the following C# sample code can be quite easy and you are free to use this sample code.

Add references(Extra):

  RasterEdge.XDoc.PowerPoint.dll

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Office.Inner.Common.dll

  RasterEdge.XDoc.Office.Inner.Office03.dll

Use corresponding namespaces(Extra):

  using RasterEdge.XDoc.PowerPoint;

            // load PowerPoint document
            PPTXDocument doc = new PPTXDocument(inputDirectory + "Sample_Barcode.pptx");

            // get the page you want to scan
            BasePage page = doc.GetPage(0);

            // set reader setting
            ReaderSettings setting = new ReaderSettings();

            // set type to read
            setting.AddTypesToRead(BarcodeType.ISSN);

            // read barcode from PowerPoint page
            Barcode[] barcodes = BarcodeReader.ReadBarcodes(setting, page);

            foreach (Barcode barcode in barcodes)
            {
                // print the loaction of barcode on image
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.BoundingRectangle.X + "  " + barcode.BoundingRectangle.Y);

                // output barcode data onto screen 
                Console.WriteLine(barcode.DataString);
            }