Local Thresholding from Zxing Library (C++)

In this tutorial, I will go over how to call local threshold method in zxing library, ported to C++ (zxing-cpp) instead of Java. If you want to implement it in Java, refer to this tutorial. I will assume that OpenCV library is installed on the system.

First, one needs to download zxing-cpp
$ git clone https://github.com/glassechidna/zxing-cpp.git
$ mkdir build && cd build

To integrate zxing-cpp with system's OpenCV, one needs to first search for OpenCVConfig.cmake file:
$ find / -iname opencvconfig.cmake 2>/dev/null
/usr/local/Cellar/opencv3/3.2.0/share/OpenCV/OpenCVConfig.cmake

In my case, I installed OpenCV from Homebrew, and its config cmake file is in /usr/local/Cellar/opencv3/3.2.0/share/OpenCV/ directory. Export OpenCV_DIR environment variable to point to this path:
$ export OpenCV_DIR='/usr/local/Cellar/opencv3/3.2.0/share/OpenCV/'

Now, we are ready to compile and install:
$ cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ..
$ make -j2
$ sudo make install

Next, change directory to your working directory and create zxing.cpp source file as below:

To compile, we first need to copy MatSource.h into zxing include directory. I am assuming that you have cloned the zxing-cpp repository into ~/zxing-cpp-master.
$ sudo cp ~/zxing-cpp-master/opencv/src/zxing/MatSource.h /usr/local/include/zxing/
where /usr/local/include/zxing is the folder that contains zxing-cpp library's header files.

We also need to locate where zxing-cpp library file is installed. You can look it up from the output after sudo make install command above, or search the file as shown below.
$ find / -name libzxing.a 2>/dev/null
/usr/local/lib/libzxing.a

Finally, we are ready to compile.
$ g++ zxing.cpp `pkg-config --libs opencv` -lzxing -L/usr/local/lib/

Make sure to replace /usr/local/lib/ above after -L option with the directory where libzxing.a file is installed in your system.

To execute, run the following:

$ ./a.out some_image.jpg

You should see local threshold binary image of your input image file.