Scanning book ISBN numbers using Android phone

[Alex Humberstone]

I bought one of the hand-held barcode scanners that I mentioned in my
previous email from Amazon.  It seems to work really well on Ubuntu 20.04
out-of-the-box. As Robby said, the scanner seems to send the ISBN number as
keyboard input. When I open a text editor, such as Kate, and then scan an
ISBN number, the ISBN number is pasted into the text editor. This solution
works well enough. At least I do not have to manually type each ISBN number
into a text editor or into Tellico. I might still see if I can do it on my
phone, so that it's more portable, and then have all the ISBN numbers
pasted into a text file, which I could then copy from my phone onto my
Ubuntu system, and then import into Tellico.

I'd like to thank Robby Stephenson, Xavier Brochard, and Bill Gee for their
help and advice.

@Xavier Brochard: You mentioned that you used an Android app to scan
barcodes into a text file. Which app did you use? I mentioned
https://barcodetopc.com/. Did you use that one?

Sincerely,
Alex-M-Humberstone
PhD Student
Klipsch School of Electrical Engineering
New Mexico State University (NMSU)
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA



On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 at 20:39, Bill Gee <bgee at campercaver.net> wrote:

> Ditto for what Robby said.  As far as the computer is concerned, the bar
> code scanner is just another keyboard.  I have been using Tellico with a
> bar code scanner to read both ISBN from books and UPC codes from music
> media (CDs, cassettes, etc) for years.  There are no drivers to install and
> no programming required.  It "Just Works".
>
> I think the big issue with scanning the codes on a phone would be finding
> a way to import the file into Tellico such that Tellico knows which code
> goes with which record.  It is probably easier to bring all the books to
> the computer, open each Tellico record and scan the code directly into the
> ISBN field.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Bill Gee
>
>
>
> On Sunday, February 28, 2021 8:16:29 PM CST Robby Stephenson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 6:57 PM Alex Humberstone <
>
> > alex.m.humberstone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I wanted to ask if could be possible to use a USB scanner like
> [1,2,3,4]
>
> > with Tellico.
>
> > >
>
> > > Or, maybe it could be possible to use an Android app like Barcode to PC
>
> > [5].
>
> > [...]
>
> > > [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXNM0Y1/
>
> > > [2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FYXCCDQ/
>
> > > [3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LE5VV1C/
>
> > > [4] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00406YZGK/
>
> >
>
> > I would think any of those should work. Essentially, they read the
> barcodes
>
> > and enter it in your current window just as if a keyboard were typing it.
>
> >
>
> > > [5] https://barcodetopc.com/
>
> >
>
> > That one, I'm not sure about, but again, just generically, anyway you get
>
> > the barcode coming into Tellico as if it were a keyboard typing it, or if
>
> > you load it into a file, Tellico should be fine. If you get further along
>
> > and it doesn't seem to work that way, please follow-up and let me know of
>
> > any improvements or suggestions you have.
>
> >
>
> > Robby
>
> >
>
>
>
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