Sebastian,<br><br>I tested with a USB handheld cam and found it was just taking too long for the capture (distance, light angle etc..) We have a few 1000 books to scan and therefore the $30.00 scanner made sense.<br><br>With the scanner we can scan as fast we can pick up books into a doc and then import into tellico, works like a charm.<br>
<br>Best,<br>Stephan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Sebastian Held <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian.held@gmx.de">sebastian.held@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Stefan,<br>
<br>
I tested the code only with one webcam. It is a fixed focus camera.<br>
It worked quite well, if the distance is correct (use a small fixture<br>
for this).<br>
<br>
The code is highly experimental and tuneable parameters are only inside<br>
the sorce code...<br>
<br>
Sebastian<br>
<br>
Am 16.04.2012 07:03, schrieb Stefan Hennig:<br>
> Robby, Stephen,<br>
><br>
> Thank you both for your helpful comments. After some very, very mediocre<br>
> results when trying to use my Android phone's cam to scan some barcodes<br>
> I have just ordered a hand-held scanner as Stephen suggested.<br>
><br>
> Nonetheless, I will try to recompile the package and see if the web-cam<br>
> will work as a fallback solution on the road.<br>
><br>
> CU,<br>
> Stefan<br>
><br>
> On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 21:38 -0400, Stephan Debelle wrote:<br>
>> Stefan,<br>
>><br>
>> I had tried to use a webcam for scanning bar code but found it was not<br>
>> easy to acquire the target (bar code). It works (in my case) but in<br>
>> my opinion you are much better off buying a cheap bar code scanner,<br>
>> It is much faster and will save you a lot of time. Working on a<br>
>> non-profit library project we ended up buying this one<br>
>> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Handheld-Automatic-Barcode-Scanner-Reader/dp/B003OUQ174/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326124716&sr=8-2" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Handheld-Automatic-Barcode-Scanner-Reader/dp/B003OUQ174/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326124716&sr=8-2</a> works great on Ubuntu out of the box. We scan into Libre Office spreadsheet and then import into tellico.<br>
>><br>
>> Probably does not solve your problem with the webcam but thought I<br>
>> would share my experience with a webcam, simply not the right tool for<br>
>> the job.<br>
>><br>
>> Stephan<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Robby Stephenson<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:robby@periapsis.org">robby@periapsis.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On 04/08/2012 06:11 AM, Stefan Hennig wrote:<br>
>> I am trying to use Tellico to organize my library of<br>
>> about 2000 books.<br>
>> One of the crucial features was the ability to scan a<br>
>> bar-code using the<br>
>> web-cam of my HP635 notebook.<br>
>> The webcam is usable as /dev/video0 in VLC and in<br>
>> Skype, but the<br>
>> check-box in the configuration settings of Tellico is<br>
>> not accessible and<br>
>> always grayed out.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I am using Tellico 2.3.3 and 64bit Ubuntu (Ubuntu<br>
>> 3.0.0-12.20-generic<br>
>> 3.0.4). The webcam is reported as HP-101.<br>
>><br>
>> Since the configuration option is grayed out, it means the<br>
>> Ubuntu package was not compiled with support for using a<br>
>> webcam. You'll need to either compile Tellico yourself, or<br>
>> convince the Ubuntu packagers to include support for webcam<br>
>> use.<br>
>><br>
>> Robby<br>
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>> Stephan<br>
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