handheld scanners

[Matt Graham]

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....)

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