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dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 374

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barcode scanning to create a book library

I've just seen this software for the Mac and wondered if anyone knows of anything similar for linux?
http://delicious-monster.com/
It basically allows you to hold up your book/video barcode to a webcam which reads it and does a lookup on some database then gives you info back. It also remembers what you have so you have a database of your library.

Having a large book collection this would be a very useful bit of software.

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: barcode scanning to create a book library

Have a look at this. May be useful if you decide to write something to fulfill your task... ;-)

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magnum_opus

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Registered: 2005-01-26

Posts: 132

Re: barcode scanning to create a book library

http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/
will do barcode look up/ catalogging. can't use a web cam but there might be some way to hack together the barcode thing above