Barcodes and QR codes are almost everywhere. We buy goods, pay bills, and even make purchases with them. Therefore, our customers require barcode scanner software solutions. On one of our projects in 2020, we were faced with the need to add barcode scanning to the Loreal Academy web application for product accounting. As a result, we checked all the available solutions that offer the ability to read barcodes online from a web application, and we will talk about their pros and cons in the article.