Hi
We are testing group docs parser, and are trying to get barcodes from a PDF… We have one PDF that it is working with, that it finds the barcodes as images on a page…
Another PDF it is not even though the PDF’s are built by the same system, that is generating them…
Any help would be great.
Could you please share more details? Do you want to extract barcode as a graphic or image?
Please have a look at this documentation article - Extract data from PDF documents.
Yes we’ve done what the documentation says… which is why we are asking for help in here, as it doesn’t work consistently… when parsing the PDF’s in question, it doesn’t see all the images that are clearly on the page including the barcode images … But yet on another set of documents of which are processed and generated by the same system that is generating the ones in question …it is working as expected…
I feel your pain on this one - barcode recognition can be so hit-or-miss depending on the image quality or the specific symbology you’re using.
Before diving too deep into the API configuration, it might be worth doing a quick sanity check on the source file itself. I usually run my images through this extractor just to confirm the data is actually readable. If that can’t pick it up either, it’s almost definitely a DPI or contrast issue with the original scan rather than a bug in your implementation.