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| Registered: October 23, 2007 | | Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | How do you use a UPC scanner to add Dvd's to collection? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | What type of UPC scanner is it? With my declawed CueCat I just swipe and it's entered automatically in the UPC field in the Add DVD window. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: October 23, 2007 | | Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | Its a Serial IO Laser Champ...ever heard of it? |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 585 |
| | Posted: | | | | If you open up Notepad and scan a barcode, does it drop the digits into the Notepad window? If it does, then you can use it with DVDP. When you're at the screen to add a DVD by UPC, you just scan the barcode and the numbers are automatically typed in for you. | | | "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" - Douglas Bader
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 38 |
| | Posted: | | | | I use a cuecat scanner myself, but I cannot scan the whole 13 digits. It only displays 12 (correct) first digits and the 13th is never shown.
I guess in the US you only have 12 digits.
Is there a way to overcome this?
PS : in the older version of DVDP there was no use of the first (region) digit and then my cuecat worked fine. --- Now it is the last that doesn't show up. | | | | http://bluray.ligfietsers.be/phpdvdprofiler/index.php |
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| Registered: May 22, 2007 | | Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting minimoke: Quote:
I use a cuecat scanner myself, but I cannot scan the whole 13 digits. It only displays 12 (correct) first digits and the 13th is never shown.
I guess in the US you only have 12 digits.
Is there a way to overcome this?
PS : in the older version of DVDP there was no use of the first (region) digit and then my cuecat worked fine. --- Now it is the last that doesn't show up. I have never had this problem with CueCat (mine is not declawed, I use Catnip) -- sometimes it'll even pick up the full ISBN code that is printed on some DVDs instead of just the UPC, but EANs worked without a hitch, too. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dmitry: Quote:
Quoting minimoke:
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I use a cuecat scanner myself, but I cannot scan the whole 13 digits. It only displays 12 (correct) first digits and the 13th is never shown.
I guess in the US you only have 12 digits.
Is there a way to overcome this?
PS : in the older version of DVDP there was no use of the first (region) digit and then my cuecat worked fine. --- Now it is the last that doesn't show up.
Same here. Mine picks up every digit on the UPC lable, whether is part of the UPC or not. Sometimes I have to backspace the extra digits out of the UPC box in order to get the correct UPC.
I have never had this problem with CueCat (mine is not declawed, I use Catnip) -- sometimes it'll even pick up the full ISBN code that is printed on some DVDs instead of just the UPC, but EANs worked without a hitch, too. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | My declawed CueCat picks up every single digit, sometimes annoyingly so. |
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| Registered: May 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,033 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is generally a configuration setting with the scanner itself. The last digit is a check digit that is actually calculated from the rest of the upc number. I know with Metrologic and other scanners you see at registers there is a book with barcodes in it that are scanned to program the scanner and tell it whether to include the check digit or not.
I have a keyboard wedge (plugs in between the keyboard and computer) metrologic and a Flic ( connects via bluetooth) that I use and both are set to include the check digit. I've never used a cuecat so I can't say if that can be programmed to ignore\include the check digit when scanning.
-Agrare |
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| Registered: August 21, 2007 | | Posts: 6 |
| | Posted: | | | | Did anybody get a serial barcode scanner to work?
I can open Hyperterm and see the characters. Not Notepad.
I tried a keyboard wedge program but the eval time ran out.
Does DVD Profiler have a builtin keyboard wedge? to take the incoming serial characters and move them to the keyboard buffer? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 252 |
| | Posted: | | | | If you don't hate using Hyperterm, you could capture to a text file (Transfer > Capture Text), then use the UPC plugin.
A longer clumsy way around, but should work...
AFAIK Profiler doesn't read the serial ports, might peruse Sourceforge.net - there seem to be several free utilities for remapping the serial to kbd that may be worth a try.
Might also be a question for the plugins forum and/or features requests. |
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| Registered: February 7, 2008 | | Posts: 3 |
| | Posted: | | | | Can you use Collectorz scanner?? It does not work in notepad, but rather in collectorz. |
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| Registered: May 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,033 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting circuitboard1: Quote:
Can you use Collectorz scanner?? It does not work in notepad, but rather in collectorz. What's the Collectorz scanner? looking at their site, the scanner they show (and seem to sell) is the Flic. Not sure on what model they use, but the Flic has its own Scanner Wedge software that will emulate the keyboard. I actually have that scanner (not with the collectorz logo on it) and it works with my desktop version as well as the mobile version. so in short, yes, it should work *edit* the scanner is made by microvision and its website is here-Agrare | | | | Last edited: by Agrare |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,491 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Agrare: Quote:
Quoting circuitboard1:
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Can you use Collectorz scanner?? It does not work in notepad, but rather in collectorz.
What's the Collectorz scanner? looking at their site, the scanner they show (and seem to sell) is the Flic.
Not sure on what model they use, but the Flic has its own Scanner Wedge software that will emulate the keyboard. I actually have that scanner (not with the collectorz logo on it) and it works with my desktop version as well as the mobile version.
so in short, yes, it should work
*edit* the scanner is made by microvision and its website is here
-Agrare   | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry | | | | Last edited: by widescreenforever |
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| Registered: May 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,033 |
| | Posted: | | | | we got a couple similar to that here at the office  |
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| Registered: February 7, 2008 | | Posts: 3 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks all for the help. Used the Wedge software. Works great. |
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