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Bookshare
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Borrow the Scanner #1

Open oestrich opened 13 years ago

oestrich commented 13 years ago

Add a "Borrow the scanner" feature that will let people borrow the barcode scanner to import their library.

pkauders commented 13 years ago

GREAT idea.

VinylFox commented 13 years ago

What about using something like this zbar barcode reader in combination with a mobile web app built with phonegap to get access to the phones camera? Then everyone with a phone would be able to scan books into the system.

http://rubygems.org/gems/zbar

Sounds like allot of work, but it would be really sweet.

oestrich commented 13 years ago

I think phonegap is something to look into.

pkauders commented 13 years ago

Have you guys seen this: http://redlaser.com/

We could probably get something up and running for iOS much faster this way I believe.

oestrich commented 13 years ago

Android has one as well. It should be incredibly easy to hook into that one. Phonegap might have a barcode scanner as well, which would be even easier.

VinylFox commented 13 years ago

Phonegap would just give us access to the camera to take pictures, we would still need some way to determine the barcode in the picture, which is where the zbar library comes in.

I know Android has easy to implement barcode scanners (http://code.google.com/p/zxing/) but that means a native app that only runs on Android, then we have to write an entirely different one for iOS. Not even sure what exists for iOS to do this.

If we write a web app and build it with PhoneGap, then we write one app that runs on many phone operating systems.