Scanning book ISBN numbers using Android phone

[Alex Humberstone]

Dear Robby,

Thanks for your response! Awesome to get a response from the primary
developer of the project! Thank you for all your work on Tellico!

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 tp use an Android app like Barcode to PC [5].

Any advice and suggestions on how to do something like this would be very
welcome. It would be fine even if I could somehow scan the ISBN numbers
from a scanner or Android phone into a CSV file, using a separate program,
and then import the CSV file into Tellico.

Sorry if my questions are basic, but I don't know much about barcode
scanners, and I'm new to all thiss, and I'm 100% on Linux, specifically on
Ubuntu 20.04.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[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/

[5] https://barcodetopc.com/

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



On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 19:49, Robby Stephenson <robby at periapsis.org> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 8:38 PM Alex Humberstone <
> alex.m.humberstone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Tellico Community,
>>
>> I am new to Tellico, but I am a long-time KDE user. I'm really impressed
>> with Tellico, it's exactly what I was looking for, to help me manage my
>> large technical book collection, and I thank you all for your work on this
>> software.
>>
>
> Glad to hear that it's useful to you!
>
>
>> I started my entering books into Tellico, and a question came to my mind.
>> I have like around 200 books. It is very tedious to enter each ISBN number
>> one-by-one. I'm wondering if instead there's a way to scan the ISBN
>> barcodes on the back of the books, either with some scanner device, or
>> ideally just with my Android phone.
>>
>
> There's some rudimentary scanner capability in Tellico, as long as it's
> compiled with that support. I don't use it directly, so it's gotten a bit
> old and I can't promise it works exactly. That would be with some sort of
> scanner that can send keyboard input. I can't think of a way to use a
> phone, unless you could scan many of the ISBN values into a text file on
> the phone, which you could then use in Tellico.
>
> Robby
>
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