Overview

Cloudmersive Barcode API is a cloud-based developer service that enables fast, accurate generation, scanning, and lookup of barcode data across a wide range of formats. It offers REST APIs to generate QR, UPC-A/E, EAN-13/EAN-8 barcodes as PNG images and to scan barcode images—including a broad variety of 1D and 2D formats—to extract structured textual data. It also supports EAN lookup to return product metadata from scanned barcode values.

Features and Capabilities

• **Supported Barcode Formats: **Supports QR-code, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8 for generation; AZTEC, CODABAR, CODE 39/93/128, DATA_MATRIX, ITF, MAXICODE, PDF-417, QR_CODE, RSS-14/EXPANDED, MSI, PLESSEY, IMB for scanning.
• **Barcode Generation: **Easily generate PNG images of QR, UPC, and EAN barcodes by providing text or numeric values; handles region-specific variations like UPC-E and EAN-8 for small product labeling.
• **Image Scanning with AI: **High-accuracy recognition even on imperfect or low-quality photos; advanced AI scan endpoint available for QR recognition in JPG, PNG, and PDF, robust in challenging conditions.
• **Barcode Lookup: **After scanning an EAN barcode, the API can perform a lookup to retrieve associated product information such as title and EAN code from a product database.
• **Multi-language SDKs & Client Libraries: **Provides SDKs for .NET, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Objective-C, Drupal, and Zapier for rapid integration.
• **Flexible Deployment Options: **Use Cloudmersive services via the public cloud, or deploy to private cloud, edge, on-premise environments, or government cloud regions for compliance and latency needs.
• **Free Tier and Scalability: **Includes up to 600 (sometimes 800) free API calls/month with no expiration, scalable to enterprise volume as needed.