ISBN Barecode reader in Python?

[Joseph]

All: I have written a program to query Amazon with ISBN and get the
book details. I would like to extend so that I can read ISBN from the
barcode (I will take a photo of the same using webcam or mobile). Are
there any opensource/free SDK doing the same? As it is a hobby
project, I don't like to spend money on the SDK.

Thank you all for your suggestions/time,
Joseph
http://www.jjude.com

[David]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Joseph <ce*****@gmail.comwrote:

All: I have written a program to query Amazon with ISBN and get the
book details. I would like to extend so that I can read ISBN from the
barcode (I will take a photo of the same using webcam or mobile). Are
there any opensource/free SDK doing the same? As it is a hobby
project, I don't like to spend money on the SDK.

I Googled a bit and found this:

http://jocr.sourceforge.net/index.html

According to the docs it should be able to scan bar codes.

David.

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Joseph <ce*****@gmail.comwrote:

All: I have written a program to query Amazon with ISBN and get the
book details. I would like to extend so that I can read ISBN from the
barcode (I will take a photo of the same using webcam or mobile). Are
there any opensource/free SDK doing the same? As it is a hobby
project, I don't like to spend money on the SDK.

Pick yourself up a cue-cat barcode reader, eg from here or ebay

http://www.librarything.com/cuecat

These appear as a keyboard and "type" the barcode in to your program.

Cheap and effective.

--
Nick Craig-Wood <ni**@craig-wood.com-- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick

[Max Erickson]

Nick Craig-Wood <ni**@craig-wood.comwrote:

Joseph <ce*****@gmail.comwrote:

> All: I have written a program to query Amazon with ISBN and get
the book details. I would like to extend so that I can read
ISBN from the barcode (I will take a photo of the same using
webcam or mobile). Are there any opensource/free SDK doing the
same? As it is a hobby project, I don't like to spend money on
the SDK.

Pick yourself up a cue-cat barcode reader, eg from here or ebay

http://www.librarything.com/cuecat

These appear as a keyboard and "type" the barcode in to your
program.

Cheap and effective.

The killer application for ISBN lookup on Amazon is checking prices
while in the bookstore. Being able to email a photo from your phone
and then getting an email with the Amazon price in response would be
way easier than typing the isbn into Google or whatever.
max

[Ville M. Vainio]

Max Erickson <ma*********@gmail.comwrites:

The killer application for ISBN lookup on Amazon is checking prices
while in the bookstore. Being able to email a photo from your phone
and then getting an email with the Amazon price in response would be
way easier than typing the isbn into Google or whatever.

Yeah, or just create a S60 python app to do it directly. Basically,
just put up a web service somewhere that allows pushing an image of
the barcode and returns the lowest price for that item, and the PyS60
app will be done in a day.