Barcode scanner program

[Mark K]

Do any of you know of a cheap or shareware program that will READ the input from a barcode reader (can borrow a USB one from work). I would like to use it to read the barcode on the DVDs that I have so that I can index a list of them.

Mark K

[galt11]

You could try this program, zbar http://sourceforge.net/projects/zbar/

I have never tried it myself but many such things can be found on sorceforge.

Adam

[Mark K]

Perfect, Adam.

Thanks

Mark

[COMATZD]

Do any of you know of a cheap or shareware program that will READ the input from a barcode reader (can borrow a USB one from work). I would like to use it to read the barcode on the DVDs that I have so that I can index a list of them.

Mark K

A barcode is just a different visual representation of characters (usually numbers). The scanner acts like a keyboard to the computer, if you open any program you can type into, the scanner will 'dump' the scan data in just as if you typed it. Almost any program will 'read' scanner information (notepad, wordpad, word, excel, etc)

If you are trying to have a program look up data regarding the movie itself based on the UPC barcode, that is something different.

[Mark K]

Do any of you know of a cheap or shareware program that will READ the input from a barcode reader (can borrow a USB one from work). I would like to use it to read the barcode on the DVDs that I have so that I can index a list of them.

Mark K

A barcode is just a different visual representation of characters (usually numbers). The scanner acts like a keyboard to the computer, if you open any program you can type into, the scanner will 'dump' the scan data in just as if you typed it. Almost any program will 'read' scanner information (notepad, wordpad, word, excel, etc)

If you are trying to have a program look up data regarding the movie itself based on the UPC barcode, that is something different.

I don't know what I was thinking, but you are right..... I have found several DVD databases (free and pay) that will do what I want. Thanks

Mark

[PHolsted]

Mark,

let us know which one you end up using and how you like it? I would love to do something like this myself.

Thanks

[Mark K]

Mark,

let us know which one you end up using and how you like it? I would love to do something like this myself.

Thanks

Here is free database in MS Excel that you can download for freee

http://www.hometheaterinfo.com/dvdlist.htm

Here is the same database online that you can do a search on

http://dvdlist.kazart.com/DVDList2.php

Here is a $30 software program that I may end up with

http://www.collectorz.com/movie/

I tested a few free and shareware programs, and Collectorz seemed to do the job, worked with the barcode reader, and was easy to use.

Mark K