Bluetooth might require rooting, but building an android app that scans to
wifi is fairly easy; they make it easy to use the scanner from your own
apps -
See:
http://code.google.com/p/zxing/wiki/ScanningViaIntent
Simon
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:53 PM, David Mayo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks; I think I just hit a bad run of ones that only did QR or wouldn't
> save/send barcodes as text. I swear I downloaded at least three, and read
> the summaries for at least four others.
>
> What I'd really like is one that would make the phone pretend to be a
> bluetooth barcode scanner, or pass the barcodes over wifi. But I think
> that might be asking a bit too much.
>
> - Dave
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Simon Spero <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > "Barcode Scanner"?
> >
> https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.zxing.client.android&hl=en
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:32 PM, David Mayo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > As a sort of side question, does anyone know of a halfway-decent
> Android
> > > app for scanning UPC-style barcodes? QR scanners are pretty
> widespread,
> > > but worthless for my purposes, and I haven't found a decent 2D barcode
> > > scanner yet.
> > >
> > > - Dave Mayo
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Michael B. Klein <[log in to unmask]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > This: http://www.keelog.com/hardware_keylogger.html
> > > > plus any USB power adapter wall plug would do the trick.
> > > >
> > > > There's an 8MB "flash drive" version, and also a version with a WiFi
> > > > interface so you can pull the log directly over the network instead
> of
> > > > having to do any hardware download.
> > > >
> > > > Michael
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:25 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 <
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> > > > > >> 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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