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Brian Byrne
Brian Byrne

Reputation: 107

Barcode scanner for book site

I'm creating a social networking site for books (like Goodreads) and I'd like to include a feature whereby a user can scan the barcode of a book using the webcam and get information about that book.

The functionality for finding the information is already complete. I just need to know how to make the webcam read the ISBN and output it as a string, which I can then feed into my script which fetches the information. At the moment this is just done by filling in a form with the IBSN.

My website is built using PHP.

I can't seem to find a working solution online.

Any ideas of how I could go about implementing this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1258

Answers (1)

Marius Grigaitis
Marius Grigaitis

Reputation: 2520

Idea would be to use Flash barcode scanner. I've seen flash software that recognizes gestures and so on, so barcode shouldn't be that hard.

Here you can see it implemented: http://gurulib.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/a-flash-based-webcam-barcode-reader/

Upvotes: 2

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