1. A method of indirectly decoding a barcode comprises: obtaining an image of a barcode using an optical sensor in a mobile computing device, the image comprising barcode marks and textual characters; recognizing distorted text within the image by performing optical character recognition on the distorted text to produce an optically recognized textual character; comparing the optically recognized textual character with the distorted text from which the optically recognized character was recognized to produce a degrading function; and deconvolving the degrading function from at least a portion of the image to improve the image quality.
1. A method of indirectly decoding a barcode comprises: obtaining an image of a barcode using an optical sensor in a mobile computing device, the image comprising barcode marks and textual characters; recognizing distorted text within the image by performing optical character recognition on the distorted text to produce an optically recognized textual character; comparing the optically recognized textual character with the distorted text from which the optically recognized character was recognized to produce a degrading function; and deconvolving the degrading function from at least a portion of the image to improve the image quality. 2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: overlaying the optically recognized textual character on portions of the image from which the optically recognized textual character was recognized; and comparing the optically recognized textual character with the portions of the image from which the optically recognized textual character was recognized to produce the degrading function which represents an image degrading characteristic.