Using a hand scanner as a bar-code reader

[VBAguy22]

Hello,
I went to this store the other day, and I saw the cashier working with a hand-scanner to scan product bar codes. I also noticed she had Access open and it was displaying her the product price and description each time she scanned a bar code. I just wanted to know more about it. Does anyone know how it works? Can it work with just any hand scanner? Or did she have a special bar-code scanner? What function does Access use to interpret the bar code? If you have any info on that kind of Access utilization please let me know. Thanks

 

[longhair]

VBAguy22,

you should be able to use any barcode scanner, such as intermec or wasp. do a search on google for "barcode scanners" and you'll see a bunch. you will want a scanner that connects with your keyboard, any application will then interpret the data from the scanner as comming from a keyboard. not that hard to do, just scan the data into a field then do a lookup.
hth

regards,

longhair

 

[drewdaman]

wasp is particularly good.. i'm using it too.. acts just like a keyboard