Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-02-03 Thread Joel Marchesoni
TSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory Bluetooth might require rooting, but building an android app that scans to wifi is fairly easy; they make it easy to use the scanner from your own apps - See: http://code.google.com/p/zxing/wiki/ScanningViaIntent Simon On Tue,

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-31 Thread Simon Spero
Bluetooth might require rooting, but building an android app that scans to wifi is fairly easy; they make it easy to use the scanner from your own apps - See: http://code.google.com/p/zxing/wiki/ScanningViaIntent Simon On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:53 PM, David Mayo wrote: > Thanks; I think I j

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-31 Thread David Mayo
Thanks; I think I just hit a bad run of ones that only did QR or wouldn't save/send barcodes as text. I swear I downloaded at least three, and read the summaries for at least four others. What I'd really like is one that would make the phone pretend to be a bluetooth barcode scanner, or pass the

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-31 Thread Simon Spero
"Barcode Scanner"? https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.zxing.client.android&hl=en Simon On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:32 PM, David Mayo wrote: > As a sort of side question, does anyone know of a halfway-decent Android > app for scanning UPC-style barcodes? QR scanners are pretty wide

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-31 Thread David Mayo
As a sort of side question, does anyone know of a halfway-decent Android app for scanning UPC-style barcodes? QR scanners are pretty widespread, but worthless for my purposes, and I haven't found a decent 2D barcode scanner yet. - Dave Mayo On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Michael B. Klein wrot

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-30 Thread Michael B. Klein
This: http://www.keelog.com/hardware_keylogger.html plus any USB power adapter wall plug would do the trick. There's an 8MB "flash drive" version, and also a version with a WiFi interface so you can pull the log directly over the network instead of having to do any hardware download. Michael On

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-30 Thread Tom Pasley
The other approach is to use a phone with bluetooth, if you have/know someone who has a bluetooth scanner. I haven't tried this myself, but noticed yesterday when my phone was on, that it offered to pair with a scanner. If you have something like Thinkfree Office or even a text document, it should

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-30 Thread Adam Wead
huh. neat idea. certainly beats paying hundreds of dollars for some other scanner. On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Michael B. Klein wrote: > I think Kyle's point was that you could use a hardware keylogger *without* > the computer behind it. Just have it "snoop" on your barcode scanner and > then

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-30 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Michael B. Klein wrote: > I think Kyle's point was that you could use a hardware keylogger *without* > the computer behind it. Just have it "snoop" on your barcode scanner and > then download the data from it daily. You'd still need to feed it USB > power, but tha

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-30 Thread Michael B. Klein
I think Kyle's point was that you could use a hardware keylogger *without* the computer behind it. Just have it "snoop" on your barcode scanner and then download the data from it daily. You'd still need to feed it USB power, but that's not hard. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Nate Vack wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-30 Thread Nate Vack
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > Since a barcode scanner is just a keyboard wedge, a hardware keylogger > would work well for this purpose. It'll cost you less than $50 It'll only work well if you don't mind your scanner spamming keypresses to the rest of your apps all day.

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-30 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Since a barcode scanner is just a keyboard wedge, a hardware keylogger would work well for this purpose. It'll cost you less than $50 kyle On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Adam Wead wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone recommend a barcode scanner wireless or otherwise that saves > barcodes to inter

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-30 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jan 30, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Adam Wead wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone recommend a barcode scanner wireless or otherwise that saves > barcodes to internal memory, to be downloaded to a computer later? We have > patrons scan their ids as they enter to keep track of statistics. I've > created

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-30 Thread Adam Wead
ibraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Spalding Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 1:43 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory We'd be interested to hear too. But why does it need to save locally, rather than having a wireless connection to

Re: [CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-30 Thread Tim Spalding
We'd be interested to hear too. But why does it need to save locally, rather than having a wireless connection to a computer? They're not going to wander around the museum with them are they? Tim On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Adam Wead wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone recommend a barcode scann

[CODE4LIB] barcode scanner with memory

2012-01-30 Thread Adam Wead
Hi all, Can anyone recommend a barcode scanner wireless or otherwise that saves barcodes to internal memory, to be downloaded to a computer later? We have patrons scan their ids as they enter to keep track of statistics. I've created some software that does this, with a regular barcode reader