[Koha] (Fwd) barcode blues!

[paul POULAIN]

Rachel Hamilton-Williams a écrit:

>I don't think this got to the list - so if anyone can help ed out that would be 
>great
>  
>

>I am playing with a barcode reader and it is putting numbers into a text 
>file, it seems not to read the last digit of any of the ISBN numbers I 
>experiment with tough....
>
>Anyone have something like this?
>
>Thanks Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC
>See the Museum's Web Site at
>www.smecc.org
>
The last digit of an isbn is a check digit.
Your barcode reader is probably programmed to drop it before 
transmission to computer.
Most readers can be parametered to send or drop check-digits.

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)