add the power of the Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK to your development toolkit today!
Quickly scan driver’s licenses and disks; deliver accurate results to consumers scanning products; make connections at trade shows; scan airline and train boarding passes; expedite package and food delivery; keep the warehouse organized all with the same powerful barcode scanning technology used by many of today’s Fortune 500 companies.
Download the Cognex Barcode Scanner application for your mobile device to see how the Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK can add new interactivity to your apps and enable a host of marketing, industry, and enterprise automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) workflows.
Our API delivers outstanding value to developers through four pillars: simplicity, reliability, efficiency, and speed.
Simplicity - The SDK’s high-level API make adding barcode scanning to your application simple. But don’t worry: the SDK is quite flexible and will allow the programmer to customize the user experience and tune scanning features.
Reliability - The Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK is the most reliable and accurate barcode reading technology available for mobile applications and smartphone integration, regardless of platform, development framework, or barcode symbology.
Efficiency - As a tool developed with the logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, and commercial services industries in mind, it is built with efficiency for the end-user, as well as simplicity for the application developer.
Speed - The Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK is tuned to provide fast and reliable barcode reading for smartphones and tablets. For damaged codes, challenging lighting conditions, or harsh environments, the SDK leverages advanced algorithms to be able to scan the toughest barcodes..
The Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK supports all major barcode symbologies, including Aztec Code, Codabar, Code 11, Code 25 (Interleaved, Industrial and ITF-14), Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, Data Matrix, DotCode, EAN, ISBN, GS1 DataBar, MaxiCode, MSI Plessey, PDF417, Postal Code, QR Code (Micro and Standard), TELEPEN and UPC barcode types, as well as all GS1 sub-types like GS1 QR Code, GS1 DataMatrix and GS1-128.
The Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK is available for the most powerful cross-platform development frameworks, including: Xamarin, Cordova, Flutter, React Native, and NativeScript.
Or deploy a barcode scanning Progressive Web App (PWA) using the Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK for Web. Add barcode scanning to virtually any web application or website without the need for a native component. The Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK for Web leverages the power of your browser’s Web Assembly capabilities to bring world class barcode scanning to mobile and desktop browsers alike.
You can add powerful data capture parser plugins to the Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK at no additional cost when you purchase an SDK license. Plugins include industry standard parsers such as AAMVA (US and Canadian Driver’s Licenses), GS1, IUID, Structured Carrier Messages (MaxiCode), and more!
Put us to the test in your real-world conditions and use cases.
To learn more, contact us via email at sdksales@cognex.com or visit https://cmbdn.cognex.com.
- Updated cmbSDK to 2.7.7
Minor user interface updates.
- Updated for Android 13.
- Updated cmbSDK to 2.7.3
- Results screen now shows barcode sub-type (if applicable)
- Unify symbology settings on iOS and Android
- Various stability updates
- Update cmbSDK to 2.7.0
- Improve overall stability
- Stability improvements
- Stability improvements
- Improved PDF417 decoding
- Improved Data Matrix tolerance for missing corners
- Fixed FNC1 character handling
- Fixed read only IATA (Code 25) if no other subtype enabled
- Added Auto encoding option to support barcodes which specify text encoding (e.g., some QR codes). If Encoding is set to Auto, the read result is decoded according to encoding information stored in the barcode or UTF8 otherwise.
- Added a new encoding option to show non-printable characters as hex codes.
- Fixed problem when opening URLs that starts with https://
- Set Google as default search engine when a custom one was removed.
- Improve overall stability
- Support for character encodings (default UTF-8)
- Configure an initial zoom for small, challenging barcodes
- New Target Decoding feature for easier aiming and barcode selection
- Enhanced PDF417 decoding
- Improved navigation of the settings screens
- Removed favorites option from barcode history
- Number of cores defaults to 2
- Support for character encodings (default UTF-8)
- Configure an initial zoom for small, challenging barcodes
- New Target Decoding feature for easier aiming and barcode selection
- Enhanced PDF417 decoding
- Improved navigation of the settings screens
- Removed favorites option from barcode history
- Improved Data Matrix and QR decoding
- Privacy policy link fixed
- Fixed read results are cut off
- Inverted logic for UPC and EAN Addons
- Timestamp added to result history element
- Fixed Save contact crash
- Order is changed for listing read results during continues scanning
- Fixed Duplicate Delay slider
Improvements in decoder:
- Fixed Aztec code exceptions
- Updated GS1 parser for AI93
- Corrected identification of GS1 Dotcode
- FNC2 in GS1 Code 128 barcodes are now stripped (message append is not supported)
- Now supports 4:1 wide:narrow ratio for Codabar
Support for Android 9 (Pie)
Thanks to the feedback of our users, this release now supports the ability to select ALL codes in History with one click! The Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK fully assimilates the Manatee Works Barcode Scanner SDK. Beyond smartphones and mobile devices, the Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK also supports the MX-100 and MX-1000 series of Cognex mobile handheld barcode scanners. Write one app... support universal hardware.
The Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK now fully assimilates the Manatee Works Barcode Scanner SDK. Beyond smartphones and mobile devices, the Cognex Mobile Barcode SDK also supports the MX-100 and MX-1000 series of Cognex mobile handheld barcode scanners. Write one app... support universal hardware.
Now featuring the power and flexibility of the Cognex Mobile Barcode Scanner SDK. To learn more, visit www.cognex.com/products/barcode-readers-scanners/mobile-solutions.
This release incorporates improvements to the Manatee Works Barcode Scanner SDK based on SDK version 3.1.4! For a description of those changes, please visit www.manateeworks.com/changelog. Of most importance is our continued excellence at providing the best PDF417 scanning capability of any mobile software solution. Try it today!
