iPhone Barcode Readers

Paul Sharpe paul at coreware.co.uk
Tue Mar 1 10:15:02 GMT 2011


On 1 March 2011 09:49, Dave Cross <dave at dave.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Need some advice on iPhone Barcode reading apps - so I turn to london.pm, my
> favourite group of iGeeks.
>
> My wife is a teacher and they're about to start a stocktake of all of the
> books in the English department. Rather than count them all, she wondered if
> there was an iPhone app that could help them.
>
> Most barcode reader apps that I've seen will scan a barcode and tell you
> lots of interesting things about the product. That's great, but for this
> purpose we also need to count the number of times we've scanned each
> barcode. We'll also need some easy way to get the data[1] into a spreadsheet
> on a real computer.
>
> Has anyone seen an app that does this?

Wrong OS but zxing lets you pass the scan results to a custom URL

  http://code.google.com/p/zxing/wiki/ScanningFromWebPages


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