We needed a barcode reading engine that could handle PDF417 for a document scanning job. We looked at off the shelf products, but we didn’t get the functionality we wanted. So we decided to develop our own software. This is when we started our research. We found many different options available out there and we tested many different barcode reading APIs. After our evaluation, we  found Aspose.BarCode for .NET to be the fastest engine available, very consistent and found that it was also very easy to implement. You cannot go wrong in choosing Aspose.BarCode for .NET.