Hi Steve,

Apologies, GMail filter problems.

2009/9/29 steve <[email protected]>:
> On 09/29/2009 11:15 AM, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
>> You can use libusb library to send specific requests to the device and
>> read the responses.
>> http://www.libusb.org/
>>
>> Also refer their developers' guide:
>> http://libusb.sourceforge.net/doc/function.usbbulkread.html
>>
> ...beside that you may also be interested in taking a look at
> http://zbar.sourceforge.net/
>
> """
> ZBar is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various
> sources, such as video streams, image files and raw intensity sensors. It
> supports many popular symbologies  (types of bar codes) including
> EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39 and Interleaved 2 of 5.
>
> The flexible, layered implementation facilitates bar code scanning and
> decoding for any application: use it stand-alone with the included GUI and
> command line programs, easily integrate a bar code scanning widget into your
> Qt, GTK+ or PyGTK GUI application, leverage one of the script or programming
> interfaces (Python, Perl, C++) ...all the way down to a streamlined C
> library suitable for embedded use.
> """
>
> Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about bar code scanning. I just saw this
> application in the results list when I did a "yum search scanner" (was
> searching for alternatives to xsane).

Very cool ;) Thanks, definitely have to check out ZBar. Will post back
with results in a few days. Opticon may also send the command
protocol, have to wait and see.

Regards,
Sameer
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