diff --git a/webrtc/tools/barcode_tools/helper_functions.py b/webrtc/tools/barcode_tools/helper_functions.py
index bb0b167334..fb9854f8a3 100644
--- a/webrtc/tools/barcode_tools/helper_functions.py
+++ b/webrtc/tools/barcode_tools/helper_functions.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 # in the file PATENTS.  All contributing project authors may
 # be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
 
+import multiprocessing
 import os
 import subprocess
 import sys
@@ -64,8 +65,7 @@ def perform_action_on_all_files(directory, file_pattern, file_extension,
   """Function that performs a given action on all files matching a pattern.
 
   It is assumed that the files are named file_patternxxxx.file_extension, where
-  xxxx are digits. The file names start from
-  file_patern0..start_number>.file_extension.
+  xxxx are digits starting from start_number.
 
   Args:
     directory(string): The directory where the files live.
@@ -73,24 +73,33 @@ def perform_action_on_all_files(directory, file_pattern, file_extension,
     file_extension(string): The files' extension.
     start_number(int): From where to start to count frames.
     action(function): The action to be performed over the files. Must return
-      False if the action failed, True otherwise.
+        False if the action failed, True otherwise. It should take a file name
+        as the first argument and **kwargs as arguments. The function must be
+        possible to pickle, so it cannot be a bound function (for instance).
 
   Return:
     (bool): Whether performing the action over all files was successful or not.
   """
   file_prefix = os.path.join(directory, file_pattern)
-  file_exists = True
   file_number = start_number
-  errors = False
 
-  while file_exists:
+  process_pool = multiprocessing.Pool(processes=multiprocessing.cpu_count())
+  results = []
+  while True:
     zero_padded_file_number = zero_pad(file_number)
     file_name = file_prefix + zero_padded_file_number + '.' + file_extension
-    if os.path.isfile(file_name):
-      if not action(file_name=file_name, **kwargs):
-        errors = True
-        break
-      file_number += 1
-    else:
-      file_exists = False
-  return not errors
+    if not os.path.isfile(file_name):
+      break
+    future = process_pool.apply_async(action, args=(file_name,), kwds=kwargs)
+    results.append(future)
+    file_number += 1
+
+  successful = True
+  for result in results:
+    if not result.get():
+      print "At least one action %s failed for files %sxxxx.%s." % (
+          action, file_pattern, file_extension)
+      successful = False
+
+  process_pool.close()
+  return successful