Pada Sabtu, 05 Februari 2022 pukul 18.04.50 UTC+7, Andy Burnelli menulis:

On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 10:07:05 -0000 (UTC), Andy Burnelli wrote:

Does anyone on this newsgroup know iOS well enough to explain why I can find
this app on the Internet with a browser, but not inside the Apple App Store?

Until someone who knows iOS answers why PokeWall wasn't found, I moved on.

I next found this free app which says it outputs "EAN-13 (ISBN)" format. *BarcodeEasy*, by Mapnitude
<https://kasanoa.com>
The app installed on my iOS 13.5 iPad and asked to send notifications, which I denied; it asked to access the camera which I allowed, and then it opened with "scan", "result", "history", "generate" & "settings" buttons on bottom.

Obnoxious ads showed up at top, but I'll ignore those ads for these tests.
1. My Costco card scan resulted in an immediate EAN-13 identification. (Notice Steve said he hadn't found an iOS app that does this, so
he should thank me, but he won't because he has his own agenda.)
I long pressed on the 13-digit number to copy it to the iOS clipboard.

2. I selected the "Barcode Type" as "EAN-13" out of the list below:
Aztec, CODABAR, Code {39,93,128}, Data Matrix, EAN-8, EAN-13, ITF
MaxiCode, PDF417, QR Code, RSS 14, & UPC-A, where the barcode
size was settable and defaulted to 500x500 px and I pasted the
clipboard 13-digit number and then hit the blue REFRESH button,
which displayed the EAN-13 barcode. I then hit the green SAVE button,
which gave me a choice of PNG or JPG.

When you hit the SAVE button, a black & white image of a folder icon
shows up but I tapped it to no avail so maybe this is a s/w bug?

Otherwise, it's not at all intuitive _where_ the image was saved
as it's not in the "Photos" app, AFAICT (although you can screenshot
& edit it in a "drawing" app if that's what it must take to do it).

Also I Pressed the "Results" button and hit the round "up arrow" button,
and then "Save to Files" "On My iPad" "Downloads" but that only saved the text, not the barcode image.
<https://smartlink.id/>

3. The next step is to (find and then) save the JPG or PNG into a
portable encrypted file container on iOS.

Two questions for those of you who know iOS better than I do:
A. Where is the JPG/PNG located that the BarcodeEasy app saved?
B. How do I move that image into a portable encrypted container on iOS?

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Pada Sabtu, 05 Februari 2022 pukul 05.53.22 UTC+7, Andy Burnelli menulis:

On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 11:12:27 -0800, sms wrote:

Apple Wallet doesn't support the EAN-13 bar code format (Apple
Wallet supports only Aztec, Code 128, PDF417, and QR formats). Google
Pay supports Aztec, Code 39, Code 128, EAN-13, PDF 417, QR, UPC-A so it would be possible for Costco to do a Google Pay digital card. The paid version of Pass2U also supports EAN-13, but not the free version.

Hmmmm.... maybe we can all learn something from Steve's thread here...

Given I don't/won't use Apple-Pay/Google-Pay/Samsung-Pay like mechanism, I first want to _thank_ Steve for bringing up that there are different formats (and that individual apps may or may not support any given barcode format).

Other than what Steve wrote, I was ignorant of which formats my own bar code scanner supports, so I looked at the app to see what it says about that. *Barcode Scanner*, by Cognex <https://cmbdn.cognex.com/> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manateeworks.barcodescanners>

As I choose only the best free apps on the planet, I'd love to know how it compares with the one that Steve suggested as the Cognex app has tons of settings and says they support all barcode standards (from what I recall).

Looking on the free ad free app itself, there are "barcode type" settings *Aztec* === on or off (default = off)
*Codabar* === on or off (default = off)
*Code-11* === on or off (default = off)
*Code-25* === on or off (default = off)
*Code-39* === on or off & additional settings (default = on)
*Code-93* === on or off (default = off)
*Code-128* === on or off & additional settings (default = on)
*Data Matrix* === on or off (default = on)
*DotCode* === on or off (default = off)
*GS1* DataBar (RSS) === on or off & additional settings (default = on) *MaxiCode* === on or off (default = off)
*MSI* Plessey === on or off (default = off)
*PDF417* === on or off & additional settings (default = on)
*Postal* Codes === on or off (default = off)
*QR* code === on or off & additional settings (default = on)
*UPC* & *EAN* === on or off & additional settings (default = on)

There are a ton of "scanner settings" (e.g., Target Decoding, default = off) And a ton of "result settings" (e.g., search options & automation options). And a selection of typical "encoding settings" such as these
Auto
UTF-8
UTF-16
UTF=-32
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-2
Shift_JIS
US-ASCII
US-ASCII with non printable as HEX

There's a lot more, e.g., options to scan images from your picture gallery. There is a history that you can enable, a switch to turn on the phone LED, and a section on automation such as "open results automatically", etc.

I admit I didn't know _any_ of this existed where I only ask those who know more than I do what _use_ any of those settings my be in the real world.

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