phone-barcode

A mobile barcode scanner that runs entirely in the browser, using the phone camera and ZXing for decoding.

Live demo: sites.efforting.tech/mikael-lovqvist/phone-barcode

Status

Currently a working standalone app. Being refactored into a reusable library — see the current plan.

The library will expose both a low-level API (bring your own container) and high-level convenience functions (scan_once, scan_continuous) that manage their own <dialog>. The UI is driven by a cloneable HTML template so it can be embedded cleanly into any host application.

Planned integration

The primary integration target is electronics-inventory. The scanner will be embedded as a feature for looking up components by barcode — either triggering a single-scan dialog from a search field, or running continuously while cataloguing parts.

Building

Requires npm for fetching the vendored ZXing library.

make build          # install deps, populate vendor/
make deploy         # build + copy deployable files to dist/
make deploy DEST=/path/to/target

Supported formats

All formats supported by ZXing, including EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, Code 128, Code 39, QR Code, Data Matrix, PDF417, and more.