We do this all the time.
You can do this using a simple serial port connected bar code reader.
Just read the serial port.
You can also do it via a keyboard wedge in which case the input goes right
into a normal keyboard input function.
We make both types, see http://www.ab.com, under the Allen-Bradley label;
and use them in our own test equipment.
Bar code scanners in particular can be seen at
http://www.ab.com/catalogs/html/b112/barcode/hhscan.html
Regards
Rob Marquardt
System Test Engineering
Rockwell Automation / Allen-Bradley
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
weekst@aval.com on 11/26/97 03:53:48 AM
To: hpvxd_xc@hpislsup.lvld.hp.com
cc: (bcc: Robert A Marquardt/Milwaukee/RA/Rockwell)
Subject: Integrating a bar code reader
Hello,
Has anyone integrated a bar code reader into their system?
I am considering implementing one and I am curious if there is someone out
there who has gone through the implementation.
Troy Weeks
Aval Communications
Walnut Creek, CA