handheld scanners

[Mark Jarvis]

I just checked & I have a CueCat that I never got around to tossing. If 
you'd like it, contact me off line. I've seen posts (but don't remember 
where) with pointers to sites with hacks.

-mj-

Matt Graham wrote:

> On Friday 03 August 2007 10:16, after a long battle with technology, 
> Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> 
>>I am looking for a handheld scanner that works in linux. I have a
>>catalog system with barcodes and I want to be able to scan the
>>barcode and have the computer read the number associated with it.
>>Does anyone use anything like this?
> 
> 
> ISTR that when the CueCat was around, a fair number of people used it to 
> do just that.  There was a kernel module and everything.  It was so 
> long ago that I'm fuzzy on the specifics, but google://"linux cuecat" 
> will probably turn up the whole story.  The results should also provide 
> 1 or 2 starting points for non-CueCat barcode scanners that work with 
> minimal hassle.
> 
> (I could've *had* a CueCat; we found one 2 weeks ago while going through 
> old junk.  But no, I thought I'd never need or want a PS/2 barcode 
> scanner, so it got junked....)
>