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richyoder555
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Back in the day, we used what was called a keyboard wedge. It was a barcode scanner that connected between the keyboard and the computer. Anything scanned simply went into the focused field on the screen as if it was typed on the keyboard. I only mention this for the concept. Today we have very inexpensive scanners that plug into the USB port that do the same thing with software. This works quite well for Windows, Linux, Android and probably others as well. But I'm guessing that you want to use the camera on a phone right? There's a had way and an easy way to do this on Android. (not sure about IOS) Hard Way: Download and compile free librarys for bar code scanning form open source. Develop webapp application that inserts scanning result into barcode field on web page. This is a lot of work. I did it years ago for Android and it probably is no longer working (android is a moving target). Easy Way: Find application in the play store (or appstore) that supports the keyboard wedge concept. For android I see there is one called "Barcode/NFC Scanner Keyboard" I tried it and it seems to work. However I just tried the demo. There are likely other apps as well.
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