[TriLUG] Recommendations on HandHeld Scanners?

[Glenn Hennessee]

jonc wrote:
> Hello LUGites,
> 
> I'm looking to install an inventory process in my business to handle all
> the phones and routers that fly in and out of here. Fortunately most of
> these things have nice bar-codes on them with their serial numbers (and
> MAC addresses), so I figure a bar-code reader will help me out.
> 
> Anyone using anything particularly nice? Hopefully integrated with
> Linux. Hopefully handheld.
> 
> Jon
> 
We have used some barcode scanners here. Unfortunately all we have used 
are the ones that connect in through the keyboard port. With those you 
just shoot the barcode when the application is expecting it and it 
routes through the keyboard interface, no coding at all. The handheld 
scanners I have looked at connected to the computer via the serial port 
of the computer. That was several years ago so they may have usb 
versions now.
glenn