Philip Pemberton wrote:
>In message <009b01c469a9$fe295e50$30406b43_at_66067007>
> "Keys" <jrkeys_at_concentric.net> wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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>>Now the problem is I can not get to the company website
>>to get the code to use the software?
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>DigitalConvergence went bankrupt a few years ago. The servers that :CRQ used
>to look up barcodes are dead anyway.
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>>I want to start scanning in all the
>>books in the collection into my laptop (I have over 1200 books to enter).
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>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...
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>Later.
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Instead of going through all that trouble, on most of the cuecats there is a
jumper you can install to make it dump out plain barcodes.
http://linas.org/banned/cuecat/spay/
or search for "cuecat" and "spay"
Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 10:11:58 BST