Barcode scanner misses white-on-brown and some ITF codes
The scanner fails to read some valid codes, including white-on-brown QR codes, 4-digit ITF codes, and Linux DRM panic QR codes.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 22 June 2024 · last reported 11 February 2026
What's going wrong
Users of the open-source Atharok BarcodeScanner app report that it fails to read several valid codes that other scanners handle.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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