Support decoding of binary QR codes

[KlaasJelmer]

When the ZBar decoder encounters binary data, it guesses the data encoding while converting it to text. This behavior destroys other types of data.

Version 0.23.1 of the ZBar library supports decoding binary QR codes using configuration option ZBAR_CFG_BINARY. This PR allows settings this flag from the decode() function

[coveralls]

Coverage decreased (-0.2%) to 97.877% when pulling 2b12b68 on KlaasJelmer:master into 833b375 on NaturalHistoryMuseum:master.

[maglub]

Is there a good way to get attention to this pull request?

This would be quite a nice and useful workaround for issues in Europe, where the base library zbar mis-interprets the encoding:

• https://github.com/mchehab/zbar/blob/9f0cbc70aba627afe02cb0afdb8fbc39eb4f229d/zbar/qrcode/qrdectxt.c#L212
• Wrong text encoding assumption: Wrong text encoding assumption mchehab/zbar#212
• Related to Decoding umlauts: Decoding umlauts #14

My workaround for now is the following, which could be avoided if one could just get the binary representation of the QR codes:

  try:
    logging.info("  - Trying the ugly workaround to re-encode utf-8 to big5, then back to utf-8")
    logging.info(res[0].data.decode('utf-8').encode('big5'))
    return res[0].data.decode('utf-8').encode('big5').decode('utf-8')
  except:
    logging.info("  - Re-encoding failed, so the qrcode is probably ok already in utf-8")
    logging.info(res[0].data.decode('utf-8'))
    return res[0].data.decode('utf-8')

[pauuser]

Getting the same issue. Hope this pull request gets more attention as soon as possible!

[DogFortune]

I have the same problem and am having trouble. I strongly hope that this PR will get some attention.

[douzebis]

Please could we get this PR merged into the master?
Or maybe an explanation what this is not possible at the moment?
Thank you!

[arpruss]

Even with this PR, binary support is incomplete: null bytes are treated as string terminators.

[tadeubas]

Created a fork with this PR and a new tag v0.1.10. To use:
pyzbar @ git+https://github.com/tadeubas/pyzbar@v0.1.10

For Poetry use:
pyzbar = { git = "https://github.com/tadeubas/pyzbar", tag = "v0.1.10"}

[tadeubas]

Even with this PR, binary support is incomplete: null bytes are treated as string terminators.

Something is wrong with your setup, tested here and it does output nul bytes like b"ABC\x00DEF". You just need to use: pyzbar.decode(frame, binary=True)