14 Jul
2004
14 Jul
'04
3:11 a.m.
Philip Pemberton wrote:
In message
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"Keys" <jrkeys(a)concentric.net> wrote:
Instead of going through all that trouble, on most of the cuecats there is a
jumper you can install to make it dump out plain barcodes.
http://linas.org/banned/cuecat/spay/
or search for "cuecat" and "spay"
I guy told me that the :C optical reader was great
for scanning books into
your computer, so I got one out of the warehouse and loaded the software
that came with it.
The CueCat (aka :C) is a barcode scanner, not a text scanner. You can scan
barcodes with it and it dumps the data (in an encoded format) into the
keyboard buffer.
Now the problem is I can not get to the company
website
to get the code to use the software?
DigitalConvergence went bankrupt a few years ago. The servers that :CRQ used
to look up barcodes are dead anyway.
I want to start scanning in all the
books in the collection into my laptop (I have over 1200 books to enter).
If you just want to create a database of books, with ISBN numbers and
suchlike, there is some software out there. I think I used "Catnip" from
<http://blort.org/cuecat/> - there's also another driver available from
<http://cuecatastrophe.com/>. YMMV.
Speaking of CueCats, I really should get another one, reverse engineer the
analog front-end, then graft a PIC microcontroller onto it and DIY a barcode
decoder. Hmm. Sounds like fun :P
ISTR there were also some HP barcode wands listed on VCM - I wonder if
they've been sold yet...
Later.