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# BarcodeText Object (IBarcodeText Interface)

This object represents a text of a recognized barcode as a collection of characters. The object exists as a subobject of a [BarcodeBlock](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/layout-related-objects/barcodeblock) object. This object is a read-only collection of [BarcodeSymbol](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/barcodesymbol) objects.

* The indexing of ABBYY FineReader Engine collections starts with 0.
* The foreach statement in C# (for each in Visual Basic .NET) can be used to manipulate the collection.

## Properties

| Name                                                                                                                  | Type                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | Description                                                                                    |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Application                                                                                                           | [Engine](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/engine-object-iengine-interface), [read-only](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties#readonly_properties)           | Returns the Engine object.                                                                     |
| Count                                                                                                                 | [int](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties), read-only                                                                                                       | Stores the number of elements in the collection.                                               |
| [Element](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/element-property) | [BarcodeSymbol](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/barcodesymbol), [read-only](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties#readonly_properties) | Provides access to a single element of the collection. The property returns a constant object. |

## Methods

| Name                                                                                                          | Description                                            |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| [Item](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/item-method) | Provides access to a single element of the collection. |

## Related objects

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/abbyy/6udH-pkk8zkVafYH/images/fine-reader/engine/barcodetext.gif?s=852768e2febb699546c5357d9117c34a" alt="BarcodeText" width="114" height="95" data-path="images/fine-reader/engine/barcodetext.gif" />[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/layout-related-objects/barcodeblock#barcodetext)[](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/element-property)[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/barcodesymbol)[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/layout-related-objects/barcodeblock)

[Object Diagram](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/object-diagram)

## See also

[BarcodeSymbol](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/barcodesymbol)

[BarcodeBlock](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/layout-related-objects/barcodeblock)

[Working with Text](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/working-with-text)

[Working with Collections](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-collections)

[Working with Properties](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties)