On 1 Mar 2011, at 10:34, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > On 1 March 2011 09:49, Dave Cross <d...@dave.org.uk> wrote: >> >> Need some advice on iPhone Barcode reading apps - so I turn to london.pm, my >> favourite group of iGeeks. >> >> My wife is a teacher and they're about to start a stocktake of all of the >> books in the English department. Rather than count them all, she wondered if >> there was an iPhone app that could help them. > > My experience with iphone apps and barcode readers suggests that if > you're going to be scanning a large number of barcodes, get a > dedicated device. > > On a side note - I've got a moderate library, of books, DVDs and CDs, > and feel the need for some library management, not least so I can tell > where individual items actually are. > > But I'm also a coder, and I'd like to have the results available to me > on multiple systems (ie it needs to sync to the cloud), which nothing > out there quite seems to do. I'm willing to at least think about > writing this myself, but > > Are there any public APIs out there that can take barcodes / ISBN > numbers and resolve them to products, bearing in mind some things I > have would have been released in non UK/US/EU markets and thus may be > harder to identify....
You might have some luck with Delicious Library. Yes, it's mac but it looks up on assorted Amazons and can export. I actually paid for my copy.