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Generate barcodes in Django site

I want to add barcode generation in a Django site and wonder what the best library or api would be. My first preference is something callable from Python - either written in Python or a C/C++ lib that I can wrap with ctypes/SWIG. Otherwise I can call out to the command line if must be.

I need at least EAN and UPC symbologies.

I've tried pybarcode but the image quality is too low. And Elaphe looks promising but from the Python interpreter all I could make was a QR Code -- EAN and UPC errored out (maybe because the syntax/usage was unclear from the documentation).

Solution

  • Use pybarcode and generate the barcode as SVG: http://packages.python.org/pyBarcode/barcode.html#creating-barcodes-as-svg

    No problem of image quality in that case.