Using BarcodeDecoder in javascript

Minhaz
5 min readJun 20, 2021

In the past the APIs like MediaDevices.getUserMedia(), local file reading API made it fairly easy to capture images and process them. This made libraries like @mebjas/html5-qrcode possible — which today allows developers to easily integrate QR code or bar code scanning capabilities to their web applications. Several developers have used the library to build Android applications using Cordova. Now the Web Platform Incubator Community Group has come with a draft for shape detector APIs which aims at providing access to accelerated shape detectors (like human faces, QR codes, bar codes, etc) for…

Minhaz

Senior Software Engineer @Google. Leading teams democratising On device AI for for masses. Writes about programming generics & specifics.