I've programed a Symbol USB bardcode reader for some applications at my
work (I work for Sweetbay/Hannaford/Foodlion) and they're really easy to
configure. You can pretty much configure them to read any barcode and
decide whether or not to drop check digits etc.
http://www.motorola.com/business/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=e37575489c075110VgnVCM1000008406b00aRCRD
http://www.idautomation.com/laser/symbol.html
Another device you may want to look at would be the Symbol MK2250. It
is the device used as a PriceChecker kiosk in lots of stores. It runs
Windows CE and can pretty much do anything.
http://www.motorola.com/business/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=34673acf35e95110VgnVCM1000008406b00aRCRD
http://www.motorola.com/Business/US-EN/Business+Product+and+Services/Micro+Kiosks+and+Payment+Terminals/Micro+Kiosks/Micro+Kiosks/MK500+Micro+Kiosk_US-EN
--Cheers,
Matthew Rogers
Eben King wrote:
> Can someone recommend a penlike or gunlike barcode reader? Something
> wireless would be nice. Or are they all pretty much the same? And
> are there a wide variety of coding styles, most of which are
> incompatible? See, I'm looking to index all of our books (a few
> thousand, is my guess) to make them searchable, print a DDS/LOC label,
> etc. Right now they're a mess.
>
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