all of the barcode scanners I've ran across simply show up as keyboads, 
and insert text just as if you typed it out.  no need for drivers at all.

I would wager that the bluetooth models also attach as a keyboard.


On 2008 Jun 23 (Mon) at 17:12:54 -0700 (-0700), Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
>
> Dear Jacob,
>
> That is very interesting question. I was always wondering myself if
> it is possible to use those bar code scanners with OpenBSD.
>
> Anyhow, this is what I found.
>
> Obviously bar code scanners work completely differently than
> Image scanners which are supported by sane-backends
>
> http://www.sane-project.org/old-archive/2001-06/0111.html
>
> The second thing I found is that they are not very hard for hacking
> as they are essentially simple  SCSI  device.  Somebody  started project  
> in  2000
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/uscan/
>
> but never finished. It looks like people have been sued over those
> drivers as it looks to me that those scanners are very lucrative  
> proprietary market.
>
> Finally, it looks that might be a very simple hardware solution for you
>
> http://www.readerware.com/rwbarcodespec.html
>
> Look at on the bottom of the page. There is bunch of scanners that  
> should just work with OpenBSD. How? It looks to me that when you scan  
> the bar code this bar code gets memorized by the device and you can  
> mount device memory as SCSI drive or download via the network.
>
> Sort of like USB memory stick or Digital camera.
> I have not looked things very carefully so I might be very wrong.
> I am really curious if you really get those things to work with Open.
>
> Please keep me posted.
>
> Most Kind Regards,
> Predrag
>
>> does anyone on list know if wireless (e.g. bluetooth) barcode scanners  
>> can or do work with openbsd? couldn't find much information about it  
>> after searching.
>>
>> the application is inventory tracking, etc, where several users would  
>> concurrently scan and have barcodes register with a single machine. if  
>> the devices simply spit out the barcodes over bluetooth, i expect  
>> there is a way to achieve this.
>>
>> cheers,
>> jake
>

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