On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:49:06AM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > Need some advice on iPhone Barcode reading apps - so I turn to > london.pm, my favourite group of iGeeks. > > My wife is a teacher and they're about to start a stocktake of all of > the books in the English department. Rather than count them all, she > wondered if there was an iPhone app that could help them. > > Most barcode reader apps that I've seen will scan a barcode and tell you > lots of interesting things about the product. That's great, but for this > purpose we also need to count the number of times we've scanned each > barcode. We'll also need some easy way to get the data[1] into a > spreadsheet on a real computer. > > Has anyone seen an app that does this?
You want "Redlaser". It's free. It makes an annoying beep whenever you scan something. It does all the fancy looking-stuff-up nonsense, but when you email the list to yourself, there's a list of barcodes attached. It doesn't tell you how many of each one, but that's a simple matter of sort|uniq -c. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Today's previously unreported paraphilia is tomorrow's Internet sensation
