Mobile terminal and decoding method thereof

A mobile terminal, comprising a central processing unit (CPU), an image capturing module, a storage module, a display module and a radio frequency (RF) module, wherein the CPU is electrically connected with the image capturing module, the storage module, the display module and the RF module, the storage module has decoding software for decoding stored therein, and the mobile terminal connects to a peripheral decoding server via the RF module;

• the CPU controls the image capturing module to capture an image of a target barcode to be decoded, and decodes the whole target barcode to obtain barcode information of the target barcode by means of the decoding software stored in the storage module of the mobile terminal, and if the decoding is successful, then the barcode information of the target barcode is sent to the display module for displaying, and otherwise, if the decoding is unsuccessful, then the target barcode is sent by the RF module to the peripheral decoding server for decoding, and then the barcode information obtained by the decoding server through decoding is sent back to the display module for displaying.