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Regira Barcodes

Regira Barcodes provides a unified abstraction for generating and reading barcodes and QR codes across multiple underlying libraries. All implementations share the same IBarcodeService / IQRCodeService interfaces.

Projects

Project	Package	Backend	Formats	Read	Write	Cross-platform
`Common.Office`	(transitive)	Shared abstractions	—	—	—	—
`Barcodes.ZXing`	`Regira.Office.Barcodes.ZXing`	ZXing.Net (SkiaSharp)	All 13	✓	✓	✓
`Barcodes.Spire`	`Regira.Office.Barcodes.Spire`	FreeSpire.Barcode (GDI+)	All 13	✓	✓	Windows only
`Barcodes.QRCoder`	`Regira.Office.Barcodes.QRCoder`	QRCoder (GDI+)	QR only	—	✓	Windows only
`Barcodes.UziGranot`	`Regira.Office.Barcodes.UziGranot`	Embedded CPOL (GDI+)	QR only	✓	✓	Windows only

Only ZXing is cross-platform. Spire, QRCoder, and UziGranot render through Regira.Drawing.GDI / System.Drawing (GDI+), which is Windows-only.

Installation

<!-- ZXing — recommended (all formats, cross-platform) -->
<PackageReference Include="Regira.Office.Barcodes.ZXing" Version="6.*" />

<!-- Spire — all formats, Windows only -->
<PackageReference Include="Regira.Office.Barcodes.Spire" Version="6.*" />

<!-- QRCoder — write-only QR -->
<PackageReference Include="Regira.Office.Barcodes.QRCoder" Version="6.*" />

<!-- UziGranot — embedded QR, no external dependency -->
<PackageReference Include="Regira.Office.Barcodes.UziGranot" Version="6.*" />

Quick Start

// Generate a QR code
IQRCodeService qr = new Regira.Office.Barcodes.ZXing.QRCodeService();
IImageFile img = await qr.Create("https://example.com");

// Generate a Code128 barcode
IBarcodeService bc = new Regira.Office.Barcodes.ZXing.BarcodeService();
IImageFile barcode = await bc.Create(new BarcodeInput { Content = "ABC-1234" });

// Read / scan
BarcodeReadResult? result = await bc.Read(barcode);
Console.WriteLine(result?.Contents?[0]);   // "ABC-1234"

Output format: all backends encode the result as JPEG regardless of the requested format. Save with a .jpg extension, or re-encode via IImageService.ChangeFormat.

Interfaces

IBarcodeWriter

Task<IImageFile> Create(BarcodeInput input, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);

IBarcodeReader

Task<BarcodeReadResult?> Read(IImageFile img, BarcodeFormat? format = null, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);

Pass format to narrow the scanner to a specific type; pass null (the default) to try all supported formats. Note that passing BarcodeFormat.Any is not the same as null: ZXing maps Any to its All_1D set, so 2D symbologies (QR, DataMatrix, PDF417, Aztec) are then excluded.

IQRCodeWriter / IQRCodeReader

Task<IImageFile>          Create(QRCodeInput input, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);
Task<BarcodeReadResult?>  Read(IImageFile qrCode, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);

IBarcodeService / IQRCodeService

Composite interfaces that combine read + write. Use these as the injection target.

Input Models

BarcodeInput

Property	Type	Default	Description
`Content`	`string`	(required)	Data to encode
`Format`	`BarcodeFormat`	`Code128`	Barcode symbology
`Size`	`ImageSize`	`400 × 100`	Output image dimensions
`Color`	`Color`	`Black`	Bar / module colour
`BackgroundColor`	`Color`	`White`	Background colour

Implicit conversion from string creates a BarcodeInput with default options:

BarcodeInput input = "ABC-1234";

QRCodeInput

Inherits BarcodeInput. Format is locked to QRCode. Default size is square (Width × Width).

QRCodeInput qr = "https://example.com";   // implicit
var custom = new QRCodeInput { Content = "Hello", Size = new ImageSize(300, 300) };

Output — BarcodeReadResult

Property	Type	Description
`Format`	`BarcodeFormat?`	Detected symbology
`Contents`	`string[]?`	Decoded values (some implementations can detect multiple codes in one image)

BarcodeFormat

Flags enum — can be combined with |. Any is the combination of all 13 symbology flags, but the ZXing reader maps it to its 1D-only set (All_1D) — to scan every symbology pass format: null instead. UnKnown = 0 is what a read returns when the detected symbology has no mapping.

UnKnown = 0
Code39  Code93  Code128  CodaBar  DataMatrix
Ean8    Ean13   Itf      Upca     Upce
QRCode  Pdf417  Aztec    Any

Implementation notes

ZXing (recommended)

Uses SkiaSharp — cross-platform. Full 13-format bidirectional support. Has a two-phase read: first attempt, then retry with TryHarder = true and AutoRotate = true for difficult images. Respects Color and BackgroundColor from input.

Spire

Uses GDI+ (Windows only). All formats. Background colour is always white regardless of input. Format detection on read returns null for the detected format field.

QRCoder

Write-only. No IBarcodeReader. Uses GDI+ internally.

UziGranot

Self-contained — no NuGet dependency. Builds a PNG (zlib/deflate) as an intermediate stream, but the returned IImageFile is re-encoded as JPEG, like the other backends. Can detect multiple QR codes in a single image. Error correction level fixed at M.

Implementation comparison

Feature	ZXing	Spire	QRCoder	UziGranot
All 13 formats	✓	✓	—	—
Read support	✓	✓	—	✓
Cross-platform	✓	— (GDI+)	— (GDI+)	— (GDI+)
Custom colours	✓	Foreground only	—	—
TryHarder fallback	✓	—	—	—
Multi-code in image	—	✓	—	✓
External dependency	ZXing.Net	FreeSpire	QRCoder	None

Overview

Index — Overview, interfaces, models, and implementation notes
Examples — QR code, barcode generation, scanning, and layer composition

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