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Comment by dazzawazza

Interesting that it uses the zxing library [1] which doesn't support EAN/UPC yet (on iPhone) and they have written EAN/UPC scanning and haven't been kind enough to donate the code back to zxing. I guess that would remove their developer license revenue stream [2].

I assume they use Amazon to get EAN->item mapping which is against the amazon TOS. If they don't I love to know what they do use.

[1] - http://code.google.com/p/zxing/

[2] - http://redlaser.com/SDK.aspx

parent dazzawazza 17 years ago

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