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How to Improve Barcode Detection Rates by Inverting Color?

What are Inverse Barcodes?

Barcodes are typically printed dark on light backgrounds. However, the Scandit SDK can invert the colors, as shown below, potentially boosting the contrast and improving detection rates in certain scanning scenarios.

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Data Matrix Code Inverse Data Matrix Code

 

How to Enable Color Inversion?

Reading inverse barcodes is disabled by default and must be enabled per Symbology within the SymbologySettings.

ℹ️ Scandit supports color inversion for the following 2D barcode symbologies:
https://docs.scandit.com/symbology-properties/#2d-symbology-properties

 

For code snippets per platform/framework, please see Configure Barcode Symbologies > Read Bright-on-Dark Barcodes within our documentation.

 

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