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

[Reed Wade]

!

that's pretty slick -- but bad for me, I've been struggling with not
heading down the freaky phone imports store and buying an HTC Magic..

-reed


2010/2/16 Mark Osborne <mosborne at ashs.school.nz>:
> 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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