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Is there anything that will allow me to say scan a barcode with my iPhone and then have it get the product and update a database, and on a page display my latest scans? a wordpress plugin maybe? I think it would be interesting to have on my blog.

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No there is no app out there that will do that for you. Only QR WordPress plugins out there are just those to generate for usage on your own site for your blog posts or links you have in your blog posts.

You'd have to do it all manually.

(Edit: I said QR codes but also applies to barcode scans.)

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Is there anything that will allow me to say scan a barcode with my iPhone and then have it get the product and update a database, and on a page display my latest scans? a wordpress plugin maybe? I think it would be interesting to have on my blog.

No app per se.. only if you do it yourself.if you know how to program in Objective-C (I assume you don't) and there are libraries out there you can use that will use the camera API of the Iphone and then you use the library for barcode recognition and it will return the number to you that you can use to contact a web service (or write your own) to retrieve information about the product or update the database or whatever.

Flash can do that as it has access to the camera but you can't use that on the iPhone. That's just one of the things you can't do with JS/HTML5 for example and you can with Flash.. but I digress.

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RedLaser supports sending a barcode to a custom URL, you just need to provide the web backend to actually do something useful with it.

hm, thanks! i have that app, so i'll have to read up on that.

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