[Tellico-users] How to use a web-cam to scan ISBN bar-code?

[Stephan Debelle]

Sebastian,

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.

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.

Best,
Stephan

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Sebastian Held <sebastian.held at gmx.de>wrote:

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