[SDBUG] App for web browsers with scanners using apache over Unix/Linux?

[Pedro moreno]

  Sorry for this late answer.

   I have been playing with some ps/2 scanners that we use here, they 
seems to work with my bsd box.

  I will continue this, thanks Erkin for your explanation!!!
 

Can Erkin Acar wrote:
> Most barcode scanners just emulate a keyboard (or can be configured to do so),
> that is, they just enter the barcode data as keystrokes into the application.
> So using them would be straightforward, just a textbox where the user can
> enter data manually or using a barcode scanner.
>
> In you application you should validate the input make sure it is all numeric
> with correct length, verify the checksum etc. But it is just another text input
> as far as your application is concerned.
>
> On 8/19/07, Pedro Moreno <pmoreno at oakwest.com> wrote:
>   
>>   Hi people.
>>
>>    I want to know if some here knows about applications that could run
>> from the browsers and use bar code scanners like Symbol scanners.
>>
>>    Reason, we had at work some app that use bar code scanners and run
>> over Access, but i don't want my clients need to depend of OS like
>> Windows + the Office package, i will prefer to use any  browser like
>> Firefox or IExplore to run this app, but using the scanner, my great
>> doubt is if this is possible, because in my case i still don't see any
>> app that run in the browser and use scanners.
>>
>>     Example, i will like to create the app with PHP, Python or any other
>> language for web, the server could be Unix(FreeBSD)/Linux(Centos) with
>> Apache. The client will just need a OS with a browser and a scanner to
>> do the work.
>>
>>    Does someone knows if this goal is possible and have some experience
>> with or have seen something like it?
>>
>>    Thanks all for your time!!!
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