Introduction

JABCode is a color barcode used by the German government (Federal Office of Information Security) for tagging items. Currently there is no easy-to-use solutions available for the public to test and experiment.

HiQ is a color barcode based on QR code, created by the students Hong Kong Chinese University (the top University of Hong Kong).

Impact on existing code

For JABCode

There is no compatibility problem for JABCode inclusion, as this is written in C (moving to C++ should be easy), and the code for JABCode is licensed under LGPL.

For HiQ

For HiQ the source code is written in Java, uses ZXing, and the license is Apache 2.0. It would be great if the code is rewritten in C/C++. Also HiQ

References

For JABCode

• Repo https://github.com/jabcode/jabcode
• Website https://jabcode.org/
• Standard https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Publications/TechnicalGuidelines/TR03137/TechnicalGuidelines_03137_node.html

For HiQ

• Repo https://github.com/ouyangzhibo/HiQ-Robust-and-Fast-Decoding-of-High-Capacity-Color-QR-Codes
• Website http://authpaper.net/