The other approach is to use a phone with bluetooth, if you have/know
someone who has a bluetooth scanner. I haven't tried this myself, but
noticed yesterday when my phone was on, that it offered to pair with a
scanner. If you have something like Thinkfree Office or even a text
document, it should scan into it.

I'm going to give it a go today, and will report how I get on...

Tom


On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Adam Wead <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> huh.  neat idea.  certainly beats paying hundreds of dollars for some
> other scanner.
>
> On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Michael B. Klein wrote:
>
> > I think Kyle's point was that you could use a hardware keylogger
> *without*
> > the computer behind it. Just have it "snoop" on your barcode scanner and
> > then download the data from it daily. You'd still need to feed it USB
> > power, but that's not hard.
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Nate Vack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Since a barcode scanner is just a keyboard wedge, a hardware keylogger
> >>> would work well for this purpose. It'll cost you less than $50
> >>
> >> It'll only work well if you don't mind your scanner spamming
> >> keypresses to the rest of your apps all day.
> >>
> >> -n
> >>
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