No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pyzbar has 2.4M monthly downloads and 826 GitHub stars. Version 0.1.9, first published in 2016.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2022.
It is built on top of enum34 and pathlib. It is used by 139 tracked packages, including qreader, docassemble-base and robotframework-doctestlibrary.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 8 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
63
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1715 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,372,102
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
•
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,372,102
Stars
826
Stars per 1k downloads
0.35
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
•
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
76,876
Month daily avg
79,070
Momentum
-2.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
MIT
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1574 days ago
Total releases
9
Releases/year
0.9
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
•
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
8
Monthly downloads
2,372,102
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
•
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
60
Issue Burden
100.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
4.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
39.4K
Windows
3.8K
macOS
1.2K
Python Versions
3.12
34.6%
14.8K
3.10
28.9%
12.3K
3.13
16.6%
7.1K
3.11
13.6%
5.8K
3.14
6.3%
2.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
31.8K
US
2.
IN
1.6K
IN
3.
DE
1.2K
DE
4.
SG
1.2K
SG
5.
CN
862
CN
6.
HK
620
HK
7.
RU
587
RU
8.
FR
572
FR
9.
ES
550
ES
10.
JP
541
JP
Used By
139
- qreader
- docassemble-base
- robotframework-doctestlibrary
- docassemble-webapp
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- image-analyser
- ebay-pictures-tool
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- bitcoin-qr-tools
- xgo-blockly-cm4
- aylak
- pyauthenticator
- odoo-addon-document-quick-access-folder-auto-classification
- acp-bridge
- bitcoin-qrreader
- pagermaid
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- ectoplasm-steganography
- nemtus-symbol-sdk
- odoo14-addon-document-quick-access-folder-auto-classification
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- formhtr
- qrimageindexer
- smartlocate
- all-feature
- kivy-garden-zbarcam
- pawpyrus
- scan2wiki
- mrjpacking
- pytesseraxcocr
- openpibo-python
- micasense-imageprocessing
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- cqrcode
- dynamic-qrcode-image
- odoo12-addon-document-quick-access-folder-auto-classification
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
November 8, 2016
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
4 years ago
Latest Version
0.1.9
Total Releases
9
Contributors
8
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Author
Lawrence Hudson
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh