Fwd: [ILUG] barcode reader. Don't want to reinvent the wheel.

[Paolo Marchiori]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Darragh Ó Héiligh
<lists at digitaldarragh.com> wrote:

> Morning all,
> I'm thinking of creating a bash script to help with reading and
> logging barcodes.


If you have all info in a workbook (ie, a single file containing a
number of spreadsheet, one per room), the "search" function allows you
to search in the whole workbook - and btw if you want to dump the
workbook into a db there are automated ways to do that.

On a colorful side note, you could have also put all the tapes from a
box together with the barcoded side on the flat bed of a flatbed
scanner, scanned the page, and fed it to gocr - which happens to
recognize barcodes. :)

p.
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