# zxingify/zxingify-objc

An Objective-C Port of ZXing

Repository: https://github.com/zxingify/zxingify-objc
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/zxingify-objc
Language: Objective-C
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-07-13T01:24:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5283, "days_push": 782, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3075, forks 759 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:41.729949+00:00)

## What it is
ZXingObjC is a full Objective-C port of the ZXing barcode image processing library, supporting encoding and decoding of many 1D and 2D barcode formats. It works on both iOS and macOS applications.

## Use cases
- scan qr codes in an ios app
- generate barcode images from strings
- decode upc codes from camera images
- read data matrix codes on mac
- add barcode scanning to an objective-c app
- encode pdf417 barcodes

## When to choose
- you need barcode scanning or generation in an iOS or macOS app written in Objective-C or Swift
- you need support for many barcode formats including QR, EAN, Code 128, and Aztec
- you want a mature port with feature parity to ZXing 3.3.3

## When to avoid
- you are building for Android, Windows, or Linux
- you prefer a Swift-native or modern camera-based scanning API like AVFoundation's built-in barcode detection
- you need formats beyond those ZXing supports

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, computer-vision, parser
- domain: computer-vision, image-processing, mobile-development, cross-platform
- platform: cpp
- tags: barcode, qr-code, objective-c, zxing, barcode-scanning, barcode-generation, ios, macos, mobile, desktop

## Member repositories
- zxingify/zxingify-objc (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.729949+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:46:37.485021+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/zxingify/zxingify-objc (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.729949+00:00, sha fe293a26ad71)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.