A simple desktop App that decodes barcodes (or QR codes). Start the app, draw a selection around the code you wish to decode, and click "Decode". If successful, the decoded code is put into the system clipboard.

mvn package -Plinux

java -jar target/screenshot-decoder-1.0.0-full.jar

Notice that due to a clipboard persistence bug in X11-based operating systems, the decoded string will not stay in the clipboard once the application quits. One workaraound is to not click "Ok" on the popup before you've pasted the decoded code from the clipboard.

cat src/main/scripts/stub.sh target/screenshot-decoder-1.0.0-full.jar > target/screenshot-decoder-linux.run
chmod +x target/screenshot-decoder-linux.run

• Run by ./target/screenshot-decoder.run (or double click if your distro supports it).
• If you get errors when running from the command line, you might have to set your DISPLAY env variable

export DISPLAY=":0.0"

• Edit the release/screenshot-decoder-linux.desktop file and fix the following paths:

Exec=/home/leerikss/github/screenshot-decoder/release/screenshot-decoder-linux.run
Icon=/home/leerikss/github/screenshot-decoder/src/main/resources/icons/screenshot-decoder.png

• Drag the "Screenshot Decoder" launcher into your launchbar

• Requires you to clone and install this repo from github: https://github.com/federkasten/appbundler-plugin (follow the README for instructions)
• After you've installed the appbuilder-plugin, run

mvn package appbundle:bundle -Posx

• The app "Screenshot decoder" is being generated into the target/screenshot-decoder-1.0.0/

• Run

mvn package -Pwin

• This generates the "screenshot-decoder-win.exe" file under the target/ folder

If you're using the Eclipse IDE, add the necessary eclipse project files by running

mvn eclipse:eclipse

Prebuilt binaries for windows,OSX and Linux can be found in the release/ folder

• zxing (https://github.com/zxing/zxing)
• appbundler-plugin (https://github.com/federkasten/appbundler-plugin)
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13948122/drawing-a-bounding-rectangle-to-select-what-area-to-record