[Koha] Parsing barcodes

[Jeramey Valley]

We are using 3 of 9, if that is what you were asking regarding check digits, I might be misunderstanding...

Thanks for the suggestion of modifying the items in Koha.
One of the issues is that we don't know which materials have the "funky" barcodes, so there is no list to pull up and modify in Koha. We don't know until a material is physically examined if it has a regular or modified bar code. The rough guess is that about half of the materials have different bar code formatting.

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Regards, 

Jeramey Valley
Network Manager, Bullock Creek Schools
valleyj at bcreek.org




On Oct 17, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Jeramey Valley <valleyj at bcreek.org> wrote:
>> Producing new bar code labels is the ultimate solution, but with >5000 books to do per library, it's not an immediate solution for us.
>> 
>> Our new, cheaper, bar code readers do not appear to have the ability to modify the barcode output that it is reading. I'm still researching our older bar code readers to see if they do have that ability (finding the manuals for the old ones is a bit trickier).
>> 
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Another option would be updating the database so that barcodes stored
> in the Koha item records match what the scanners emit. Do you happen
> to know which checkdigit algorithm, if any, is used by your barcodes?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Galen
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