Question Unique, yet simple barcode decoder - where to start?

[Harisz]

Hey!

I'm a beginner in coding with .NET and I'm looking for some information on what framework to choose (since there are tons of them), where to start learning and what to look for.

I have a set of playing cards with unique barcodes on the back. Here are the four examples:

It seems that the barcode is divided into 5 sets, each reading a pair of 1's and 0's. The middle "hook" is probably to determine whether the card was placed on the reader correctly.

Here's the picture I've found on the internet which provides more information on how these cards (probably) are encrypted:

My ultimate goal is to create some app which would be able to scan and de-code these cards using the camera and return those decoded bits.

The question is - where to start and what to look for?

 

[Skydiver]

OpenCV and its .NET wrappers so that you can at least acquire the image, rotate as needed, and get basic scaling done. After that it's just plain old image processing to isolate the blocks and read them.