[Koha] fun thing to do -- bar code scanner using cheap web cam

Mark Osborne mosborne at ashs.school.nz
Tue Feb 16 07:47:08 NZDT 2010


I got it to work on my Android phone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tpYOeD4bv4

On 16 February 2010 06:36, Liz Rea <lrea at nekls.org> wrote:

> And adding to that, you could theoretically use the cam in a device like a
> smartphone to read barcodes too. There are apps that do this already, and it
> would be so cool to have an app for koha so librarians could tote their
> smart(device) out into the stacks to do inventory/other
> maintenance/reference live without a laptop.
>
> Liz
> On Feb 15, 2010, at 5:58 AM, Nicole Engard wrote:
>
> > I actually submitted this as an enhancement request a couple years ago
> > :) http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1937 So - if
> > you do something about it, just update the bug.
> >
> > Nicole
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Reed Wade <reedwade at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ChrisC suggested the idea the other day and later I ran across--
> >>
> >> http://en.barcodepedia.com/download
> >>
> http://parentnode.org/flash/easy-to-embed-webcam-based-barcode-scanner-in-flash/
> >>
> >> just needs some clever and bored person to do some integration and
> >> suddenly Koha gets cheap easy bar code scanner
> >>
> >> (I'd take a stab at this myself but don't have a reliable set up.)
> >>
> >> -reed
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