[TriLUG] Recommendations on HandHeld Scanners? -update

[Andrew Perrin]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, jonc wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:22, jonc wrote:
>> Hello LUGites,
>>
>> I'm looking to install an inventory process in my business to handle all
>> the phones and routers that fly in and out of here. Fortunately most of
>> these things have nice bar-codes on them with their serial numbers (and
>> MAC addresses), so I figure a bar-code reader will help me out.
>>
>> Anyone using anything particularly nice? Hopefully integrated with
>> Linux. Hopefully handheld.
>>
>> Jon
>
> Andrew Perrin sent me a Symbol Hotshot. Thanks Andy!

No sweat :)

>
> It's a small handheld scanner that plugs into the keyboard cable - and
> then into the keyboard connector. As such, it is OS agnostic and works
> wonderfully with Linux. I've been scanning in all sorts of things :-)
>
> The only thing it is missing is a button on the scanner handle that
> imitates the Enter key (or the Tab key). Other than that, I'm quit happy
> with the little thing and wondering how I ever lived without it!
>

They're very cool, aren't they? I use them a lot for data management on 
surveys. I don't remember about that particular scanner, but usually you 
can go to the website and download a programming sheet, which consists of 
a series of barcodes you scan. You can use this, for example, to tell it 
to send an "enter" after each scanned barcode. Check the symbol website to 
see if that's possible.

ap


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