This file explains how to set up the Zebra Crossing (Zxing) library in order to use it in the barcode encoder and decoder tools. Zxing could be found at: https://code.google.com/p/zxing/ After checkout, the relevant files from Zxing should be in third_party/zxing, relative to this README. In order to run barcode_encoder.py and barcode_decoder.py we need to have build two jar files: zxing/core/core.jar and zxing/javase/javase.jar. In order to build these we have to have Ant already installed. Building is as simple as running the build_zxing.py script: ./build_zxing.py, which should automatically call ant with the respective build files from the Zxing checkout. For more information on how to run barcode_encoder.py and barcode_decoder.py check the documentation in the main functions inside these tools.