iPhone Barcode Readers

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 1 Mar 2011, at 10:34, Dominic Thoreau wrote:

> 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.
> 
> My experience with iphone apps and barcode readers suggests that if
> you're going to be scanning a large number of barcodes, get a
> dedicated device.
> 
> On a side note - I've got a moderate library, of books, DVDs and CDs,
> and feel the need for some library management, not least so I can tell
> where individual items actually are.
> 
> But I'm also a coder, and I'd like to have the results available to me
> on multiple systems (ie it needs to sync to the cloud), which nothing
> out there quite seems to do. I'm willing to at least think about
> writing this myself, but
> 
> Are there any public APIs out there that can take barcodes / ISBN
> numbers and resolve them to products, bearing in mind some things I
> have would have been released in non UK/US/EU markets and thus may be
> harder to identify....

You might have some luck with Delicious Library. Yes, it's mac but it
looks up on assorted Amazons and can export. I actually paid for my copy.