What a great title for an application. If you have a mac, you simply must go grab delicious library, this cool library management application that uses a webcam to scan the barcodes of objects and build a database of them for you. It’s initially geared towards your personal book, cd and DVD collection, but it uses an open data format and I have almost no doubt that it will quickly be expanded by the development community to store records on virtually anything with a barcode on it. It’s also radically less expensive than similar systems sold to do the same thing, plus it’s high in the ol’ cool geek trick factor.
It won’t actually be released for another couple of days, but check it out, if the screenshots and the notion of pointing your webcam at anything with a barcode and automatically adding it to your dataset doesn’t interest you….er, then you’re not enough of a geek to be reading this site, time for you to move right along now.
I’ll post impressions after I’ve acquired a copy in a week or so.
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I have a webcam, but not an iSight. i think i lose.
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Actually they talk about other webcams on the site, and you can use yours, though they warn that the isight is a more effective scanning tool. Basically what they’re saying is ‘those of you with the crap $20 logitech webcams with the 25 cent CCD’s in them are going to struggle here’ – as I recall the webcam I got you was a higher end model, you should try it, hopefully it has a sufficiently capable CCD that it can distinguish between the lines on the barcodes.
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