PerlMagick

[Leo Lapworth]

On 28 October 2010 14:04, Christopher Jones <c.jones at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> I have several thousand scan images that contain a barcode, and I'd like to
> extract the barcode from each one - and after a bit of digging around I
> figured PerlMagick might be the solution.
>
> I'm sure there's more than one way of skinning this cat, but if I *could*
> install PerlMagick, it would be helpful!
>

Well, still with the aim of PerlMagick....

1) www.finkproject.org
2) MacPorts
3) Run a virtual linux box on your mac (then install on that).
    - http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/ - free trial
    - http://www.parallels.com/uk/ (I use this and it works really well) -
free trial

HTH

Leo