Why I can't read multiple barcode with pyzbar?

Question

I'm trying to use pyzbar to read multiple barcode, however it seems like I can't read multiple instead of only one big bounding boxes.

Answer 1

When you call pyzbar.decode it will decode all 1D barcodes in your image. For example:

from pyzbar.pyzbar import decode
from PIL import Image

for bar in decode(Image.open('benchmark.jpg')):
    print(bar.data)

will print out

b'12345678'
b'12345678'
b'0000123456784'

However in your case all barcodes are identical so pyzbar just returns a list with a single element. It would work if they were different however.