How to Scan Barcode from Mobile Browsers

Rachel J
1 min readJul 5, 2017

You got a requirement to enable barcode scanning for your mobile users. You don’t want to do it via an app since it requires extra effort for both users and developers. You want to enable users to read barcodes from a mobile website. How to do that?

In this post, we will introduce how to create a solution for barcode scanning from mobile browsers using Dynamsoft Barcode Reader (DBR) SDK. Users can access the web page via their mobile browser, capture an image, upload it, and then get the barcode result.

Supported barcodes include 1D barcode, QR code, DataMatix, and PDF417.

Watch the video below to see how to scan barcodes from mobile browsers:

Barcode Reader for Mobile Web Browsers

You can also open the demo URL in your mobile browser or scan the QR Code below and try the demo out:
https://demo.dynamsoft.com/dbr_wasm/barcode_reader_javascript.html

Scan the QR to scan barcodes from mobile browsers

Try for free

You can download the sample code from our code gallery.

Want to add barcode scanning to your own website? Get the 30-day free trial of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader and try it out.

Download DBR Free Trial

Originally published at www.dynamsoft.com/blog

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