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    Barcode scanner for Mac / organize about 500 tapes and 200 drive

    Posted by Ryan Turner on March 5, 2014 at 6:32 pm

    Hi Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. Not sure where to ask this.

    I have just inherited a fairly large drive and tape library from a very disorganized co worker. I need to log them into a Mac computer and organize the library.

    Any suggestions on Mac based bar code scanners / software to help facilitate this? Someone recommended Intelliscanner, any thoughts on this?

    Thanks!

    Tom Goldberg replied 12 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Tom Goldberg

    March 11, 2014 at 10:10 pm

    Any hand-held USB scanner outputs the standard ASCII values when it scans tape bar codes. Thus you should be able to use whatever you find cheaply or conveniently.

    To use it, just put click your cursor into whatever field you want the data to appear, point the scanner and pull the trigger. It should work that easily.

    Tom Goldberg
    Cache-A Corporation
    433 Park Point Drive #285
    Golden, CO 80401
    mailto:tom.goldberg@cache-a.com
    https://cache-a.com

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