ISBN Barecode reader in Python?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Joseph <cephire at gmail.com> wrote:
>  All: I have written a program to query Amazon with ISBN and get the
>  book details. I would like to extend so that I can read ISBN from the
>  barcode (I will take a photo of the same using webcam or mobile). Are
>  there any opensource/free SDK doing the same? As it is a hobby
>  project, I don't like to spend money on the SDK.

Pick yourself up a cue-cat barcode reader, eg from here or ebay

  http://www.librarything.com/cuecat

These appear as a keyboard and "type" the barcode in to your program.

Cheap and effective.

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Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick