quagga2 VS UhttBarcodeReference

The next level up from that would be to hook up the business-specific frontend to a barcode scanner and at that point not only could both clients & business know what items are available, but also their current stock & availability.

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I used the zebra crossing app ("barcode scanner") in mass scan mode to scan all my books. The app keeps a history of scanned items and you can export it as CSV. This of course is not very "nice" but a very fast way to scan all your books. There is also some JS implementation for isbn scanning which works ok. It is used by bookwyrm which is open-source (but not free software).

Honorable mention to quagga. No longer actively maintained, but there is an active fork quagga2.

The component used for the camera barcode scanner is quagga2, feel free to improve it or even replace it with another one and provide a pull request if that maybe works better. Also already partly tracked in #737.

The camera barcode scanner component used is quagga2. Scanning highly depends on lighting, the angle and so on and is IMHO generally slow and error prone. I would only use a laser scanner which is 1000 % faster and works under any lighting condition. On my phone I personally simply use the dropdown / search way, since still faster than a single camera barcode scan...

The component used is Quagga2 and there are also some options in data/config.php to tweak it.

I've had an idea that I'm not too skilled to carry out myself. The idea is to wean people off of purchasing things by using machines to identify items and ultimately get them to people who need them. This github repository and perhaps some computer vision can identify things you're trying to throw out. Perhaps it can be tied to an app that can put your item on a map, first come first serve. I was really inspired by bookmooch.com who did something similar with books.