<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">I'd like to thank Robby Stephenson, Xavier Brochard, and Bill Gee for their help and advice.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">@Xavier Brochard: You mentioned that you used an Android app to scan barcodes into a text file. Which app did you use? I mentioned <a href="https://barcodetopc.com/">https://barcodetopc.com/</a>. Did you use that one?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:monospace">Sincerely,<br></span></font><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:monospace">Alex-M-Humberstone</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:monospace">PhD Student</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:monospace">Klipsch School of Electrical Engineering<br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:monospace">New Mexico State University (NMSU)<br><span><span>Las Cruces, </span></span>New Mexico, USA</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:monospace"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:monospace"></span></font></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 at 20:39, Bill Gee <<a href="mailto:bgee@campercaver.net">bgee@campercaver.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:0.92em">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".</span></p>
<br><p style="margin:0px">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.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px">Bill Gee</p>
<br><br><p style="margin:0px"><br>On Sunday, February 28, 2021 8:16:29 PM CST Robby Stephenson wrote:</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 6:57 PM Alex Humberstone <</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> <a href="mailto:alex.m.humberstone@gmail.com" target="_blank">alex.m.humberstone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> > I wanted to ask if could be possible to use a USB scanner like [1,2,3,4]</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> with Tellico.</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> ></p>
<p style="margin:0px">> > Or, maybe it could be possible to use an Android app like Barcode to PC</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> [5].</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> [...]</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> > [1] <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXNM0Y1/" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXNM0Y1/</a></p>
<p style="margin:0px">> > [2] <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FYXCCDQ/" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FYXCCDQ/</a></p>
<p style="margin:0px">> > [3] <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LE5VV1C/" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LE5VV1C/</a></p>
<p style="margin:0px">> > [4] <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00406YZGK/" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00406YZGK/</a></p>
<p style="margin:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin:0px">> I would think any of those should work. Essentially, they read the barcodes</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> and enter it in your current window just as if a keyboard were typing it.</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin:0px">> > [5] <a href="https://barcodetopc.com/" target="_blank">https://barcodetopc.com/</a></p>
<p style="margin:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin:0px">> That one, I'm not sure about, but again, just generically, anyway you get</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> the barcode coming into Tellico as if it were a keyboard typing it, or if</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> you load it into a file, Tellico should be fine. If you get further along</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> and it doesn't seem to work that way, please follow-up and let me know of</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> any improvements or suggestions you have.</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin:0px">> Robby</p>
<p style="margin:0px">> </p>
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