Reference

zbarlight.copy_image_on_background(image: Image, color: tuple[int, int, int] = (255, 255, 255)) → Image

Create a new image by copying the image on a color background.

Parameters:

  • image (PIL.Image.Image) – Image to copy

  • color (tuple) – Background color usually WHITE or BLACK

Returns:

PIL.Image.Image

zbarlight.scan_codes(code_types: str | list[str], image: Image) → list[bytes] | None

Get code_type codes from a PIL Image.

code_type can be any of zbar supported code type [1]:

  • EAN/UPC: EAN-13 (ean13), UPC-A (upca), EAN-8 (ean8) and UPC-E (upce)

  • Linear barcode: Code 128 (code128), Code 93 (code93), Code 39 (code39), Interleaved 2 of 5 (i25), DataBar (databar) and DataBar Expanded (databar-exp)

  • 2D: QR Code (qrcode)

  • Undocumented: ean5, ean2, composite, isbn13, isbn10, codabar, pdf417

Parameters:

  • code_types (list(str)) – Code type(s) to search (see zbarlight.Symbologies for supported values).

  • image (PIL.Image.Image) – Image to scan

Returns:

A list of code_type code values or None