Barcode Scanner

[rdmaughan]

Does anyone have a barcode scanner I could borrow for a couple of weeks?  I know this is not exactly a standard household item but many of my friends are not exactly standard households.

ETA: Sorted, a work colleague of my better half has one.

Comments

[keristor]

There's an iPhone application which will scan barcodes, if you either have one or know someone close who has one. fleetfootmike knows about it, I've seen him use it.

[rdmaughan]

Unfortunately I work for a mobile network other than the one who has the UK iphone contract so I don't have an iphone. As I am looking to scan several thousand items I doubt I will find an iphone owner who will lend me there phone for long enough to get through all of what I want to do.

However if it works on the ipod touch then it might push me into buying one of those. Thanks

[armb]

Would http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ work on your phone?
Or does http://en.semapedia.org/ list something that does?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/readbarj/ ?

[rdmaughan]

I don't have a personal phone, only a company one. The comments about the Blackberry version of the reader is less than encouraging even if I was prepared to install software on to the company phone which I'm not.

[armb]

I suspect it's possible to run some version on an emulator on a PC, but that's probably more trouble than it's worth.

As would writing your own based on http://www.mperfect.net/barCode/ or http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/barcodeImaging.aspx.

I'm convinced that there must be a free barcode reading utility out there that isn't tied to a phone, but I'm failing to find it (ignoring 2-D matrix codes that won't help you).

http://www.bardecode.com/download.html maybe? SDK, but says it has a sample utility. But "the chance to try our barcode reading toolkits before you buy" suggests it's going to be crippled somehow.
Similarly http://www.dtksoft.com/barreader.php (but that's just an SDK).

Okay, I give up, you can drive Google as well as I can....