stdbar 1.0.0 - Library for reading barcode scanner input 1. License ------- This file is part of lib_stdbar. lib_stdbar is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. lib_stdbar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with lib_stdbar. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 2. Getting support / corporate accounts ------------------------------------ If you are a corporate user and need to get support or want stuff in this library developed, you can get pricing information and an estimate by sending your request to git-contact@eulerpfad.com . If you want to use our software but don't want to write the code yourself, we can offer you help. We develop your individual software, adjusted to your needs and integrated in your software sollutions so feel free to ask for an estimate. 3. About stdbar ------------ The stdbar library is a C-Library for reading input from BARCODE scanners. Most people do that by speculating that the scanner behaves like a keyboard sending scancodes. The downside of this method of reading the codes is, that all barcode scanner input always goes in your stdin. So you can not controll the software while scanning. If you're for example in a menu, scanning might trigger some actions that are unwanted. Using stdbar, all barcode scanner input comes on a seperate channel and can thus be read where it belongs by an application. 4. Naming ------ The name was given, cause the barcode input does not come from stdin but in a seperate channel, which could be named as stdbar. The name was given by Saij. 5. State ----- The library is still under development. Currently Linux 2.6 / 3 is supported (evdev needed). For barcode formats, we support EAN13 and any barcode read by a scanner that was terminated by a return scancode. More to come. 6. Future ------ For the future we want to implement barcode scanner detection, plug and play, more barcode formats.
armin-bauer/libstdbar
A library for reading barcodes and working with barcode scanners and on top of that a cool demo on using evdev
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