Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Generate barcodes using barcode4j

Barcode4J is a barcodes generator written in Java. It's free, available under the Apache License, version 2.0.It supports generating 1D and 2D barcodes of various types.

a) Implementations

* 1D barcode implementations
          o Interleaved 2 of 5
          o Code 39
          o Code 128
          o Codabar
          o POSTNET
& more
 * 2D barcode implementations :
          o PDF 417 (ISO/IEC 15438:2001(E))
          o DataMatrix (ISO/IEC 16022:2000(E))

b) Support for multiple formats:
It supports various file formats viz. SVG, EPS (Encapsulated PostScript), Bitmap images (such as PNG or JPEG),  Java2D (AWT), Text (for testing and debugging only).
http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net/2.0/output-formats.html


c)Barcode Servlet with support for SVG, EPS and bitmap output

d) Command-line interface
barcode4j has command line support so you can generate barcode by executing a command on command line.

e) Plug-ins/extensions for third-party products:
          o Apache Xalan: SVG-generating XSLT extension
          o SAXON XSLT Processor : SVG-generating XSLT extension
          o Apache FOP: support as fo:instream-foreign-object

For more information go to http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net/

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