Thread: "Best" barcode database app for big database (games, movies, dvds, comics, etc)
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eachna is offline eachna
2011-01-26 , 09:13
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Originally Posted by lardman View Post
No, but it would be easy enough to code up (I would offer to do it for you now, but I'm waiting for my fixed N900 to come back to me by post).

In the mBarcode thread I posted a simple example of a Python plugin that wrote to a text file for someone, but I'm not quite sure about the status of the Python wrapper plugin in the latest version of mBarcode as the api has changed and I've not had a chance to get it working again yet.

Certainly a C++ plugin would be easy enough to write, just take a look at the existing plugins and feel free to ask.
I'm not a programmer, but I would be willing to make a donation up front if someone (you or someone else) could get this working for me.

I need something that will let me scan movies (dvds/bluerays), books (including graphic novels), console games, and CDs, and grab their basic information (barcode, name, format, year, etc.) and new price on Amazon. It would have to push the information to either a spreadsheet (a csv-style text file would also work as long as it would be importable to something like Open Office as a spreadsheet) or database program.

An interface that would facilitate "bulk" scanning (ie: only having to press a single button to go on to the 'next' item) would be best. I tried several apps under Nitdroid but no barcode scanner seems to work with the camera (an unexpected wrinkle).

If mbarcode's plugin framework doesn't work, that would be another unexpected wrinkle.