[ UWP ] how to use a COM based API in UWP application?

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UWP

Win10

C#7.0

.NET4.6

I’m currently working on a UWP app to work with scanners. This application is a POS app and reads barcodes. Windows 10 Provides its built in barcode scanner class. That is used for UWP apps but it is limited in functionalities. you can check it here.

Window 10 barcode Scanner for UWP < Available in Creaters Update only >

further! we are supposed to use SNAPI protocol with barcode scanning in our app. So instead of working with built in .NET class we proceeded with 3rd Party Barcode Scanner SDK, which provides us the SNAPI Protocol in its Code. It is a COM based API. You can check it here.

Zebra Scanner SDK for Windows

This SDK is very old. It works fine with older .NET platforms like Winforms and WPF etc. but I'm unable to consume its services from UWP app.
We want to use This COM based API in our UWP app, but we are unable to find a way to consume it from UWP. Is there a way to use COM based APIs in UWP apps?

What I have tried:

we tried to make WCF Services instead, to consume 3rd party SDK indirectly but this is a heavy solution of a large problem and it increases code complexity as well.
I also used PCL ( Portable class library ) to consume that API from UWP but PCL is also not able to access COM based APIs.
This is problem that on I’ve been stuck from few days, couldn’t find any appropriate solution on Internet as well.