- To: Patrick Elliott-Brennan <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Bar Code scanners
- From: James Polley <jamezpolley@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:10:24 +1000
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You have an Android phone, right?
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/android-barcode-scanner/
That page has 6 lines of python that read the URL - but 2 of those are
turning it into a url and looking up the book on Google Books. All you want
to do is record the barcode, so you'll want to tweak that a little bit -
you probably just want to record the ISBNs to a text file and look up the
details later.
GoodReads has an android app that not only does the scanning, it also
uploads your book list to their service that helps you track them -
http://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/281-announcing-barcode-scanner-in-the-goodreads-android-app
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Patrick Elliott-Brennan <
mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got to scan a whole collection of books (a couple of hundred at least)
> and was wondering if anyone has any experience with those that do/don't
> work with Linux or know of another way I can scan the books?
>
> A loan of one would be good, if possible.
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrick
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