library VS openlibrary

I would solve it client side. Just write a little bit of javascript with zxing-js (https://github.com/zxing-js/library). There is also a vue package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue-zxing-scanner.

Very nice! I noticed that it only supports Chrome at the moment. Perhaps take a look at https://github.com/zxing-js/library which lets you scan C128 and QR (and others) from in-browser camera access --- so it works in FF, Chrome, Safari even on iOS.

The react-qr-barcode-scanner relies on zxing for decoding barcodes. I used it for some time until I discovered a bug caused by inconsistent results from reading EAN codes. I found an issue on zxing and it appeared to have been fixed. However the react-qr-barcode-scanner used an older version of zxing where this was still an issue.

There wasn't much in the ways of react things that I could find so I believe I just made my own component using zxing. It was pretty straightforward. I'll see if I can't find the code for this.

That said, it's really just a wrapper for the ZXing JavaScript library (https://github.com/zxing-js/library), so you could easily include that in your protect and initialize it yourself.

You might want to check https://openlibrary.org and its API with a web based bar code scanner e.g https://github.com/zxing-js/library then plug back to Calibre or your favorite PIM/PKM tool.

Issue: https://github.com/zxing-js/library/issues/466

I am currently working on a project with implementations that are very similar. I went with zxing-js, which is a js port of the app written in java. seems to grab most barcodes, although the documentation for js is slim to none. I had to manually go through some of the code to understand even what functions were available to me. So far so good, I would recommend: https://github.com/zxing-js/library

I'd like to make a pitch for Openlibrary.org the free online library from Internet Archive that includes a fulltext search of millions of books.

I've been volunteering with them on and off for several years and it's always a lovely experience. Their backend is python and frontend mostly from python templates and some Vue for librarian stuff.

Every Tuesday they have a call on Zoom that everyone is welcome to join to share what they're working on, ask for help, and generally chat a bit. It's a great time.

Depending on what you're interested in there's a lot to do from helping build import pipelines for more book entries, writing bots to cleanup data, Performance improvements, better documenting public APIs, etc

I'm currently slowly working on a wikidata integration for their authors page. We also could use some help upgrading to Vue 3, mentors for Google summer of code would be helpful, find of ML projects needing help, moving away from old jQuery libraries, etc.

They can be quite responsive to PRs too like I blogged about here: https://blog.rayberger.org/idea-to-merged-in-less-than-30-mi...

For example, here's a small issue that could use some help on the python side: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/8928

OpenLibrary does provide search access to full texts. For example: https://openlibrary.org/search/inside?q=%22institutional+thi...

It is open source and they're always looking for contributors. I think they'd especially welcome help improving search!

https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/

Check out https://openlibrary.org. You can search ´library science’, librarian’, etc, and something should come up. Just select the ‘ebooks’ option to search for items within the collection. And you can narrow the search by subject, etc.

Right now I'm in the middle of the chicken and the egg problem where we don't have enough authors cataloging their publications and b/c of that obviously readers are not interested in using the site.

I've gone back and forth with taking Open Libray's [0] catalog as that would at least flesh out our collection of books but then I'd have to deal with verifying authors to accounts so they can access their books. Which sounds like a major headache and also just defeats the concept of building a community.

Since this is really a weekend project, I'm just going to keep building the tools out to perfection and hope people will trickle in over time.

Luckily for me I just want to write, so the tools I'm building are exactly what works for my writing goals and I think overtime others will find the same value.

[0] https://openlibrary.org

Here's one: https://openlibrary.org/

The Internet Archive runs what they call the Open Library, which is a unique concept on the traditional library. You can sign-up with minimal details and digitally check out many scanned books from libraries all over the world. The only caveat is that almost all of the books are older editions - ones that would be impossible to find locally. It's great if you're looking for old routes, a look back in time, details about obscure areas, or just prefer to read a book rather than browse AllTrails. Please do still support local authors whenever you can as guidebooks take hundreds of hours to create and are slowly going extinct.

Repo : https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary