Feature: store barcode contents, list and search them (#14276)

* Feature: store barcode contents, list and search them

New setting PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_STORE_BARCODE_VALUES (off by default)
stores all barcodes found during consumption with the document: page,
type and content. They are listed on the metadata tab with a copy
button, returned by the documents API and searchable with barcodes:
in the advanced search. Versions keep their own barcodes, reprocessing
reads them again. Refs #9898

* Tests: cover the remaining barcode branches

Covers unchanged and failing barcode reads on reprocessing, unsupported files and DocumentBarcode.__str__, and uses toHaveLength in the barcode list spec as suggested by SonarCloud.

* Address review: keep barcodes when they can't be read, format choices

- Reprocessing and new versions keep the stored barcodes when the file
  can't be scanned or the scan fails, and replace them atomically.
- Format is a TextChoices of the zxing-cpp formats, with a test.
- Shared scan code, latest_version helper, TypedDict, serializer reuse.
- Barcodes in the split manifest, export/import tests, pytest-style tests.

* Barcode tests: TIFF reprocess, format check both ways, fixtures

- Reprocessing a TIFF with TIFF support off keeps the stored barcodes.
- The format test also fails when zxing-cpp drops a format.
- Fixtures in place of the sample dir mixin, plugin-level disabled test.
- Format labels aren't translated, OpenAPI enum named BarcodeFormatEnum.

* Review: module-level zxing reader, shorter barcode docs

- read_barcodes_zxing is a module-level function used by scan_pdf.
- Drop the trivial __str__ test, mark it no cover.
- Shorten the barcode docs and remove the duplicate in configuration.md.

* Fix header

* Use utility class

* Return barcodes from the metadata endpoint only

Drop the barcodes field and its prefetches from the document serializer,
as agreed in the review. Also remove the now empty component stylesheet.

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**Example:** A 6-page scan with TAG:invoice on page 3 and TAG:receipt on page 5 will create
three documents: pages 1-2 (no tags), pages 3-4 (tagged "invoice"), and pages 5-6 (tagged "receipt").
### Barcode Contents {#barcode-contents}
By default, Paperless only uses barcodes for splitting, ASNs and tags. With
[`PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_STORE_BARCODE_VALUES`](configuration.md#PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_STORE_BARCODE_VALUES)
enabled, it stores the content of every barcode with the document, e.g. payment codes or QR codes.
- Barcodes are listed on the **Metadata** tab with page, type and content, and can be copied.
- The API returns them in the `barcodes` field of `/api/documents/{id}/metadata/`.
- They can be [searched](usage.md#searching-barcodes), e.g. `barcodes:DE89370400440532013000`.
- Only the first [`PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_BARCODE_MAX_PAGES`](configuration.md#PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_BARCODE_MAX_PAGES)
pages are scanned. Reprocessing reads the barcodes of existing documents.
- Each version keeps its own barcodes, and the newest version's are shown and searched.
## Automatic collation of double-sided documents {#collate}
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Defaults to false.
#### [`PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_STORE_BARCODE_VALUES=<bool>`](#PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_STORE_BARCODE_VALUES) {#PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_STORE_BARCODE_VALUES}
: Stores the content of every barcode found during consumption, see
[Barcode Contents](advanced_usage.md#barcode-contents).
Defaults to false.
## Audit Trail
#### [`PAPERLESS_AUDIT_LOG_ENABLED=<bool>`](#PAPERLESS_AUDIT_LOG_ENABLED) {#PAPERLESS_AUDIT_LOG_ENABLED}
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The bare `notes:` prefix is shorthand for `notes.note:`.
#### Searching barcodes
If [barcode contents are stored](advanced_usage.md#barcode-contents), they can be searched by
content or type, but only with a field name:
```
barcodes.value:DE89370400440532013000
barcodes.format:qrcode
barcodes:wifi barcodes:guest
```
`barcodes:` is shorthand for `barcodes.value:`. Separators are stripped, so each part of e.g.
`WIFI:S:Guest;P:secret;;` can be searched on its own.
All of these can be combined. Syntax not described here may not work as expected, and an unknown field name is searched as ordinary text.
!!! note