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"Keys" <jrkeys_at_concentric.net> wrote:
> I guy told me that the :C optical reader was great for scanning books into
> your computer, so I got one out of the warehouse and loaded the software
> that came with it.
The CueCat (aka :C) is a barcode scanner, not a text scanner. You can scan
barcodes with it and it dumps the data (in an encoded format) into the
keyboard buffer.
> Now the problem is I can not get to the company website
> to get the code to use the software?
DigitalConvergence went bankrupt a few years ago. The servers that :CRQ used
to look up barcodes are dead anyway.
> I want to start scanning in all the
> books in the collection into my laptop (I have over 1200 books to enter).
If you just want to create a database of books, with ISBN numbers and
suchlike, there is some software out there. I think I used "Catnip" from
<
http://blort.org/cuecat/> - there's also another driver available from
<
http://cuecatastrophe.com/>. YMMV.
Speaking of CueCats, I really should get another one, reverse engineer the
analog front-end, then graft a PIC microcontroller onto it and DIY a barcode
decoder. Hmm. Sounds like fun :P
ISTR there were also some HP barcode wands listed on VCM - I wonder if
they've been sold yet...
Later.
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Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 09:24:44 BST